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Usage of Videos or Images from Youtube/ Google-images as data source
I'm working on a deep neural network research application Does usage of youtube videos or google images as data source cause a sharing-data, ethical, copyright or commercial problem? The aim of the ...
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Releasing crawled data: Potential legal challenge? [closed]
In many occasions in computer science I saw papers that analyze social network data also released these data, such as
http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/data-imc2007.html
http://socialcomputing.asu....
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Can pre-print be published as "working paper" after the peer reviewed and revised manuscript has been accepted for publication by the journal?
A colleague wishes to publish a pre-print as a "working paper" after the revised manuscript has gone through the peer review process and accepted for publication.
The rationale is that firstly, ...
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Can a supervisor extend the paper and change the order of authors?
Background: In my area, people extend their conference paper to a journal version by adding only 30% contribution. This means that you get a second paper, with the same content (introduction, related ...
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Retyping some material to obscure source of a textbook with a solution manual?
This is my first time teaching mathematics. I've been giving lessons based on a certain textbook which contains excellent exercises (not just the exercises, but the order in which they appear leads ...
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How to obtain the files created by previous university researchers, both legally and physically? [closed]
I'm a post doc at a U.S. University. I need the files of a grad student research assistant who has left the lab. The student was a funded RA. The student created files (data, codes, simulations, ...
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Linking to printed books on archive.org
I am a postgrad PhD student. I occasionally participate in answering academic questions a Q & A site when I hit a block with getting on with my thesis.
I often cite a particular large and well-...
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Is it legal to share an electronic copy of a few book chapters?
I have scanned a few chapters of a textbook (about 10%) and I want to make the electronic files available to my classmates. The reason why I scanned the chapters initially was so that I could print ...
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Is it okay to keep pdfs of journal articles from my previous university when my current university does not have a subscription?
I've been wondering about this for some time. I did my PhD at the big university A. I had access to hundreds of online journals and ebooks. I was downloading papers and ebooks, classifying them, ...
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Is it okay to upload slides based on others papers?
In some seminar classes, one student presents a paper selected from top conferences or journals with the help of slides. Usually, there is a lot of discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the ...
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Is reproduction of copyrighted material in a research proposal fair use?
Say that I am writing a grant application to be submitted to a funding agency. The application is not a public document and so it will be only accessible to the review panel, the collaborators ...
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Should a scientific paper have copyright? [closed]
Should a scientific paper have copyright?
I guess not.
It seems to me that science and copyright are not compatible.
Let's say I wrote a very important paper in, say, cell biology.
Suppose I have ...
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What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?
In this several times up-voted answer, it is suggested, among other things, that 'if someone using an image [...] that they do not own (it) is inappropriate and should be first reported to the PI of ...
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Is it legal and ethical to post my notes of a conference I am attending on my website?
I'm due to attend a conference soon, and plan to take notes on the talks I attend. My note-taking software of choice (org-mode) can easily export to HTML. Is it legal to post my notes on my website? ...
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Attaching reprints of published but copyrighted papers with job application
How wise and legal is it to attach my published but copyrighted papers with my job application or even put up on the personal (academic) website? I see a lot of people posting their papers that I ...
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