Copyright law Quotes by Alexandra Elbakyan

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books,…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well.…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I could obtain any paper by pirating it, so I solved many requests and people always were very grateful for my help. After that,…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their commitment is…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research…

— Alexandra Elbakyan