Mirroring OA Content or Stealing it?

[Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>]

The Iranian Ministry of Science, Research & Technology seems to be active 
in what could be considered either mirroring or theft of free access 
journal content.

Take a look at http://journals.iranscience.net/ They have copied in their 
entirety copyrighted websites of a number of journals that provide 
free-access content. They do not respect robots.txt restrictions. They 
appear to encourage use of passwords to download non-free content. And 
then they serve it all up for the word to see!

I would be interested to hear how some of the copied web sites, such as 
Biomed Central , JAMA, or JBC feel about this "mirroring" of content, 
which I presume is not illegal in Iran.

Eric

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