Papers Continue to Face Retractions for Failure to License Pricy Tool
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Papers are being retracted due to failure to license a pricy research tool, sparking controversy over copyright misuse.
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Morisky made a business out of licensing the scale and demanding steep fees for researchers who failed to obtain the proper permissions, as we reported in Science in 2017. Researchers who cannot afford the payments Morisky and his business associate demand have been forced to retract their work.
What an asshole. I already think it's sketchy that instruments like the wAIS or other scales are monetized, but this scale has only 6-8 questions and the latest version was retracted after being challenged as no better than chance. Absolute garbage.
Open source scales should be table stakes for open source science.
Greed.
Wouldn't science be under the umbrella of fair use, and publishing papers be under the umbrella of educational use?
It's undoubtedly a money-grab, and it reminds me of the people who extorted restaurants, etc., for singing "Happy Birthday", until the courts ruled that the song was in the Public Domain already (and had been for a very, very long time).