US court backs authors infight over article reproduction rights

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The UnCover Co of Colorado, owned by London-based Dialog Corporation, retrieves and copies articles from journals and charges a fee for their distribution. Five freelance authors are suing the company, and have won a federal court ruling, whereby the company must not distribute copies of an article without a signed copyright release. The company believes that the ruling places further restrictions on the dissemination of scholarly works, and that a copyright fee is paid to publishers.

Laws, regulations and rules, Copyright infringement, UnCover Co.

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US defence labs face research cutbacks..

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US national defence laboratories are having to meet last-minute cuts in funding for long-term research projects. The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has had to introduce a 90-day moratorium on hiring scientists and the Sandia National Laboratories have implemented a special review process whereby only the most urgently required scientists will be hired.

Finance, Research, Defense industry

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The history man

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Californian book dealer Jeremy Norman has assembled an archive of documents and other items concerning the history of molecular biology. Some science historians fear that the collection may eventually be split up and sold to wealthy collectors, even though Norman states that he plans to donate it to a public institution.

Records and correspondence, Collections and collecting, Molecular biology, Norman, Jeremy

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