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. 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,
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