Today The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a less amusing letter Beall received Tuesday. An Indian intellectual property management firm called IP Markets informed Beall that they would be suing for $1 billion in damages and that he could face up to three years in prison for his "deliberate attempt to defame our client." That client is OMICS Publishing Group, an India-based operation profiled several times on the blog. The group requested that Beall remove the posts and e-mail updates to anyone who published his work, yet IP Markets still intends to go through with the suit either way.I know nothing about OMICS's publishing practices, but based on how they handle their critics, I feel confident in saying that they're not the sort of firm that any scholar should be doing business with -- censoring, terrible bullies don't make good publishers.
"All the allegation [sic] that you have mentioned in your blog are nothing more than fantastic figment of your imagination by you," the six-page letter reads according to The Chronicle. "Our client perceive the blog as mindless rattle of a incoherent person and please be assured that our client has taken a very serious note of the language, tone, and tenure adopted by you as well as the criminal acts of putting the same on the Internet."
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
India's OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time
OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to
sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1
billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to
his prominent Scholarly Open Access
site. OMICS cites India's terrible Information Technology Act as the
basis for its threats. However, it seems unlikely that Beall would be
extradited to India even if OMICS makes good on its threats, and unless
he has assets in India, they'll have a hard time collecting on any
judgment.
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