Academic publishers and societies have taken legal action against scientific networking site ResearchGate for copyright violations. A team named Coalition for Responsible Sharing has been formed to restrict ResearchGate downloading and copying articles from published journal articles. The members of this coalition team include the American Chemical Society, Brill, Elsevier, and Wiley and Wolters Kluwer.
Reference Link: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/06/researchgate-publishers-take-formal-steps-force-copyright-compliance/