Eight years later, after defending his rights, zhao dexiang, a retired professor at the university of economics and economics in china in late september, finally waited for an apology and over $700,000 in compensation from china's network. Since 2013, zhao dexiang has been prosecuting china's sensei network for violating its right to disseminate information about its works, and has won all of them。
The low price of the internet and even the free admission of academic papers by researchers have been controversial for the use of teachers and students in scientific institutions and higher education on a reimbursable basis and for increasing prices。
“indemnity of $700,000 to professor zhao deok-kyung is the nature of compensation for copyright tort liability of the network.” the dean of the school of intellectual property of the university of political science and law of china stated firstly that, according to the court ruling, there was no author's permission or there was a licence defect. In the event of a defect, it would be a violation for the network to take a large number of academic papers and profit from them. In general, the copyright of these papers during the copyright protection period remains with the author himself。
At present, the incident has led to a chain reaction, with professor zhao deok-hyun, a student, also pursuing a lawsuit and winning the case against suzhi. Journalists, however, contacted a number of expert scholars, who were strongly dissatisfied with such behaviour, and refused to give further interviews “to those who need the papers for a fee to download, and the authors did not get a penny for the results”. A young scholar told the journalist: “for us, the paper faces a great deal of academic loss if it is not accessible because of its rights
Retrieval opportunities are priced online, and students are burdened dramatically
In recent years, there has been a strict examination of the paper at all levels and in all types of schools, and the demand for the examination of the function has skyrocketed in the group of graduates。
Compared to platforms such as the whip consultation and the all-china data platform, the number and variety of academic papers received by the network are significant, and the number and quality of the monographs included in them are much higher than in other platforms in the field。
In modern law, no. 5 of 2019, published the law department for unfairly high priced practices of academic database operators and its decryption, a database of 3964 periodicals, or 43 per cent of the total number of periodicals, with exclusive and only authorized periodicals, according to the authors; 778 periodicals, or approximately 42 per cent of all core periodicals; and 194 periodicals, or 64 per cent of the top three periodicals, including the top three in all disciplines. As a result, many higher education institutions require that the results of the survey of knowledge networks be based on results。
At present, students are offered free of charge two internet tests, one at first and the second at professional level, i. E. Final. Many students are willing to pay for more research services, using the opportunity offered by schools to review their papers free of charge。
The final edition of the dissertation was submitted to the school by zhang yi ling, a graduate of a university in hunan province, after spending nearly $1,000 on the examination of the paper, and the results were close to the final results of the school examination, which amounted to 5. 1 per cent, “this money, if spent on meals, could be eaten in the cafeteria for more than a month”。
In response to questions about the high fees expressed by students, the network has issued several circulars stating that it has never been open to individual users and that only users of institutions such as universities and research institutes have that right。
In april 2020, the network issued a circular stating that “the use of technology by outlaws to embezzle or obtain illegal access to detection accounts through the internet to profit from the sale of the network's academic misconduct testing services to individuals has increased”, and that penalties such as “discovery or resale of mismanagement, cancellation of the annual service model by year-end users and re-approval of annual service levels” will be applied。
In the run-up to this year's graduation season, the cost of retracing web platforms has increased again, making graduates “unacceptable”. On an electrician platform, journalists found that the merchants claimed that the price of re-opening the paper on the internet was on an upward trend, and that the higher the price, the more complete the database behind it, the more $1,800 and $2,000 were quoted once。
In addition, in order to ensure that papers do not encounter problems with repetition rates, “weight reduction” services are derived from a number of electrician platforms, that is, to help authors reduce the repetition rate。
Eui, an undergraduate student at one of nanchang's higher education institutions, purchased a weight check and artificial intelligence “weight down” service on an electrician platform, at a cost of $1,500, and received “a dissertation below the school's repetition rate limit” for five days。
In response to an undergraduate paper with a repetition rate of nearly 30 per cent for a full text of approximately 23,000 words, the responder for a vendor providing heavy and “reduced” services was “reduced to less than 15 per cent at a fee of $530 at a cost of less than 10 per cent at a price of $660. Feedback within 2 days, using the china knowledge network system”。
The vendor introduced the idea of reducing the repetition rate to ensure that the articles are kept to their intent, academic perspective, content framework, structure and logical and that they do not add or delete content, “we will seek a change in the presentation of the corresponding professional to ensure the professionalism of the articles by changing their presentation”。
“the examination of opportunities as a trade in goods and the creation of `heavy' services severely undermines academic norms and ecology.” li yu, a humanist society scientist at a central university of higher learning, says。
On the one hand, it is clear that the internet explicitly does not allow for the opening of heavy inspection services to individuals, and on the other hand, there is a need for pupils to do so. Why do schools not offer students multiple opportunities to do so
“students are advised not to copy, rather than to help them escape surveillance.” li yudo is a consideration of the school. Thus, knowledge networks and schools each have a reason to push the demand for some graduates ' dissertations into the market。
It's hard for college to bear the price of the internet
Prior to this, several higher education institutions questioned the high and rising prices of internet services。
In january 2016, wuhan polytechnic university indicated that schools would suspend the use of the internet because the price of renewal was too high and prices were rising each year. Between 2010 and 2016, the cost of using the network increased by about 132 per cent, with an average annual increase of about 19 per cent, “schools no longer able to afford”。
Because of the sharp increase in the price of the renewal network, “schools were unable to agree on the renewal price and the network” and beijing university and the university of tai chi also announced that the network would be discontinued. This wave also affected a number of higher education institutions in hebei, shandong and yunnan. According to the journalists, these institutions soon re-engineered the information network service, which does not mean that the problems were properly addressed。
“students, teachers, the only ones who know how to use it, and we were forced to use it.” the head of the library of one of the above-mentioned institutions told the press。
Direct and indirect costs incurred by higher education institutions and teachers are becoming increasingly high, knowing that online price adjustments are taking place during theaw fight with higher education institutions。
The former head of the beijing university library told the journalist that “the school is worth hundreds of thousands a year, which is more than 800,000 yuan a year, and is rising more than it could bear”. The library resources are divided into paper-based periodicals, chinese and foreign-language databases, “the purchase of knowledge networks accounts for more than one third of the purchase of chinese-language databases and only reduces the purchase of other sub-banks”。
“knowledge monopolies are more alarming than market monopolies”
As a result of the contract with the university, teachers and students in the university are now able to download their papers free of charge at the school. For social users, however, there is a need for fee downloads. Currently, journal papers are downloaded on the internet at approximately $0. 5 million per page. Master's dissertation: $15. Doctor's thesis: $30。
According to phaa, during the two national conferences in 2020, ncpcc member and deputy director of the shanghai city education council, nishing, submitted a proposal that china's knowledge network has almost completed the integration of large-scale intellectual information resources, has built a platform for dissemination of knowledge resources and value-added services, has become the leading leader of information services that provide resources for community-wide sharing, digital learning, knowledge innovation and easy access to high profits through monopolization, thus increasing the cost of acquiring knowledge. He therefore suggested that china know network be included in the procurement of services by the government。
More than 20 years ago, the network, with the support of the state, built the “cnki digital library”, whose official network icon shows it as the “china knowledge infrastructure project”. At the end of 2018, the shares of its holding company announced that the qinghua holdings intended to transfer all the shares held by them to the chinese nuclear capital, which became the controlling shareholders of the company。
In the first half of 2021, the company's main operating income was $496 million and net profit to the mother was $18. 927 million, compared to 51. 30 per cent。
