{"id":93832,"date":"2019-07-18T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-plan-to-mine-the-worlds-research-papers"},"modified":"2019-07-22T11:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:17:30","slug":"the-plan-to-mine-the-worlds-research-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-plan-to-mine-the-worlds-research-papers","title":{"rendered":"The plan to mine the world\u2019s research papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-plan-to-mine-the-worlds-research-papers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up behind paywalls \u2014 and his campaigns have scored many victories. He has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from building codes to court records, and then arguing that such texts represent public-domain law that ought to be available to any citizen online. Sometimes, he has won those arguments in court. Now, the 60-year-old American technologist is turning his sights on a new objective: freeing paywalled scientific literature. And he thinks he has a legal way to do it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis \u2014 but is it legal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up behind paywalls \u2014 and his campaigns have scored many victories. He has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from building codes to court records, and then arguing that such texts represent public-domain law that ought to be available to any citizen online. Sometimes, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94016,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93832\/revisions\/94016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}