Jail Time for Sharing a ThesisĪs a graduate student all too familiar with needing papers that were difficult to access, he shared the thesis to help others working in conservation biology. Why? It contained information that would be useful in identifying amphibians he had seen in protected areas. In the case of Colombian scientist Diego Gomez, he decided to share a thesis that he found helpful on Scribd. For starters, scientists do not receive any financial benefit from sharing data or research papers. In academia, where scientists must have access to the work of their fellow scientists in order to continue to advance their field, things are a little different. Rightfully, some share of the proceeds should be given to the person who invented it. One of the reasons copyright laws exists is to prevent others from using a created work (and benefiting from it) without acknowledging its creators.
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