Shelley Batts is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Retrospectacle, a neuroscience blog that explores science from the perspective of an "upbeat savvy female scientist who wants world domination one first-author paper at a time". Her blog is featured by the popular science hosting group ScienceBlogs, owned by the SEED Media Group.
In 2007, Retrospectacle made internet headlines after being served a notice by the Wiley journal, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, claiming that Batts violated their copyrights by using figures from a paper whose results she was featuring.[1] Batts used the incident to create a discussion and raise awareness of the rights of bloggers to discuss academic results and reproduce figures. Other science blogs rallied to her cause, defending fair use rights,[1] and Wiley reversed their position, issuing her an apology within days.[citation needed] The incident has been considered a case study in fair use on the internet.
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^ ab Swaminathan N. "Science Journal (Almost) Polices the Blogosphere", Sciam Observations (27 April 2007) (accessed 25 October 2007)
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