Ep 07: SciHub, The Indian copyright regime & access to knowledge

In this episode of Jack of all knowledge, I'm talking to Nikhil Purohit, a final year student at NLS about the cat and mouse chase between scientific publishing industries and open access websites like SciHub, and LibGen. These websites have been sued for copyright infringement by major publishing companies in the Delhi HC recently. We talk about how the scientific publishing industry works, why people find their business model questionable, and most importantly - what is the legitimate case for SciHub and Libgen. Nikhil is a fellow at SpicyIP and this episode is based around the three part series of articles he wrote on this issue, posted below: 1. https://spicyip.com/2020/12/sci-hub-and-libgen-up-against-academic-publishers-a-death-knell-for-access-to-research-part-i.html 2. https://spicyip.com/2020/12/sci-hub-and-libgen-up-against-academic-publishers-a-death-knell-for-access-to-research-part-ii.html 3. https://spicyip.com/2020/12/sci-hub-and-libgen-up-against-academic-publishers-a-death-knell-for-access-to-research-part-iii.html