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Harry Gindi comments on "When a paper is behind a pay-wall..." (4142)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:51:06 -0700

Alright, good to know! Not that it is my intention to abuse it, but it's useful that we don't have to be super careful.

Ben Webster comments on "When a paper is behind a pay-wall..." (4140)

Ben Webster — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:17:59 -0700

fpqc- I think the consensus among moderators was that we had no interest in enforcing DMCA proactively. We certainly won't take any action in the absence of a takedown notice from the owner of the material, and i think even then the sense was that that was an issue from whoever was hosting the material, not MathOverflow as a site.

Harry Gindi comments on "When a paper is behind a pay-wall..." (4139)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:41:51 -0700

I guess, but for example, Bourbaki's chapters 7-9 of "Lie Groups and Lie Algebras" is available behind a pay wall. What is the verdict on posting chapters from books or even whole books?

Another example: Hirschhorn's book on model categories was available for free on his website before the published version came out. I have the pdf from his website. Would it be inappropriate to link that sort of thing.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "When a paper is behind a pay-wall..." (4137)

Anton Geraschenko — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:25:45 -0700

Harry Gindi comments on "When a paper is behind a pay-wall..." (4135)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:15:11 -0700

What is the policy here? Is it always acceptable to temporarily host the file even though it's technically copyright infringement (not that I have a problem with that..)?

I think it would be just nice to know.

Motivation: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/19526/reference-request-for-a-well-known-identity-in-a-paper-of-shepp-and-lloyd