The (Un)Holy Trinity – ‘Pirates’ of the Academia, Digital Rights Management, and Fair Use in India
Introduction A major development in the battle between shadow libraries like sci-hub and libgen (the ‘pirates’ of academia) and academic publishers like Elsevier came when the Delhi High Court (‘DHC’), in late August 2025, ordered in Elsevier Ltd. v Alexandra Elbakyan CS(COMM) 572/2020 the blocking of sci-hub and its mirror sites citing non-compliance with its […]