Justin Weinberg reports that "Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service." The new terms grant Academia "a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner." It also grants additional rights over uploaded content. Academia has been demanding users create accounts to read uploaded papers, so this is the natural progression of this data squeeze.
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