On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Miller, Andrew (ELS-OXF) < [email protected]> wrote:
> How would a private individual, perhaps without much money, realistically > ‘go after’ such transgressors? > > > Exactly this happened to me earlier this year. Springer-Verlag who are an STM publisher like Elsevier took images I had published as CC-BY, stamped "Copyright Springer" on them and offered them for sale at 60 USD per image. I went straight to the web and blogged this daily - exposing the scope of Springer's claim to material that they did not own. This included CC-BY images in Wikipedia. See http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/06/07/springergate-i-try-to-explain-springerimages-and-my-continuing-concern/and several blog posts previous. Springer retracted over a period of weeks and got a significant amount of publicity, including in Wikip(m)edia outlets. I do not know how seriously Elsevier regard other people's copyright. I have been to Elsevier presentations where apparently third party copyright material has been shown, asked whether Elsevier had obtained permission and am yet to get a reply. If it happens to me I shall make it seriously public. I shall not divulge my subsequent strategy but I do not believe I will be powerless. > ** > > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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