College students have been imprisoned for 8 years + a crisis of fines by sharing others' papers on the net

ByPatrick

In ColombiaUniversity of QuindioDiego Gomes · Hoyos, a student in biology department uploaded a paper on amphibian taxonomy of a scientist on the net, he was appealed by the author of the paper as infringing the copyright. When conviction comes down, Gomez faces the crisis that imposes 8 years imprisonment and a fine, but why Gomez posted the paper to the Internet?

Student may be jailed for posting scientist's thesis on web: Nature News Blog
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/08/student-may-be-jailed-for-posting-scientists-thesis-on-web.html


Gomes is a universityCowgirl poison frogWe are doing research on the population ecology of Hiroshima Prefecture, and conducted fieldwork in 2011. At that time, I decided to borrow the hands of the student fellows and determined that it was necessary for individual identification,ScribdI uploaded a dissertation on the amphibian taxonomy of another scientist.

ByMyheimu

Two years later, in 2013, Mr. Gomez was informed that the scientist who wrote the paper as suing copyright infringement was sued. In response to this incident, the Karisma Foundation, a Colombian human rights organization,Sharing is not a crime"We are implementing an advocacy campaign.Public Library Of ScienceMichael Carroll, a member of the PLOS, who oversees the intellectual property program at the American University, says, "There are authors who attach extreme complaints around the world, but that requirement does not pass in most countries Because Columbia lacks the number of trials of this sort, I am extremely worried about what judgment will be issued. "

Colombia's copyright law was revised in 2006 and criminal penalties have been negotiated against some copyright laws. Carolina Botero, a lawyer at the Karisma Foundation, insists that the criminal trial should not be conducted on copies of copyrighted material that is not the purpose of this time. Mr. Gómez immediately deleted the paper from Scribd upon receipt of the complaint, but if he is found guilty at the hearing scheduled to be opened in September 2014, he will spend four to eight years in prison in addition to a fine Become.

ByGreg Siebrand

Gomes already graduated from Quindio University,National University of Costa RicaWe are conducting research to acquire a master's degree on wildlife nature reserves. Mr. Gomes says the name of the scientist who sued himself for the reason "I do not want to put pressure", but he says, "People are working on biology for passion and not for profits." I will.