Etiqueta: Sharing is not a crime

Karisma and Diego Gómez win the Next Generation Leadership Award at OpenCon2018

The annual OpenCon conference brings together the most promising students and academic professionals in early career that drive open access, open data, open educational resources, and many other aspects of scientific culture and open education. On November 2, the OpenCon community presented the Next Generation Leadership Award during the conference that took place in the...

Crowdfunding campaign seeks to help Diego Gómez, a Colombian conservation biologist prosecuted for sharing a research online

Karisma Foundation, a Colombian civil society organization, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to support Diego Gómez, a biologist accused of copyright infringement for sharing a scientific research online. When he was a college student at Universidad del Quindío, Diego uploaded a thesis from a colleague at Universidad Nacional de Colombia on the document platform Scribd...

Diego Gómez is declared innocent!

A case with no precedent that highlights the need for Open Access to be the rule, no the exception, regarding circulation of scientific research. Today, more than three years after criminal procedures began, Bogotá Circuit Criminal Court No. 49 acquitted the biologist Diego Gómez of charges of copyright violations for sharing an academic paper online....

Final hearings on Diego Gomez case

Press release May 18th, 2016. Two final hearings took place in May 2016, in the criminal proceedings that Colombian biologist Diego Gomez is facing for alleged copyright infringement. “Whom you hurt the most when there is no any scientific information for years? the author or the country? activist and lawyer Carolina Botero, from Karisma Foundation...