“Library of Alexandria had to be set on fire after publishers’ court win”
That is not what has happened here.
“The library of Alexandria has had to remove some books from public lending due to court order”
The IA played a very risky game during covid, lost, and now needs to face concequences.
It could be soo much worse.
It would be useful to have a list of the missing books for reasons.
I’ll see if i can find it.
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But LLM’s can copy anything.
rules for thee but not for me!
piracy is awrsome, folks!
But they make stonk lines go up so wall street can buy caviar for their kids.
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“To the contrary, the decision barely mentions copyright’s ultimate purpose of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts,” it said.
It feels like the thoughts of the past came straight out of fiction. Today, nothing seems worth anything if you can’t directly make money from it.
Crap I knew there was something I was supposed to do!
Understandable, but a huge bummer nevertheless
Take a step back. Is it really understandable? A digital resource, that costs nothing to reproduce, is being artificially restricted.
The economy is based on goods and services being exchanged for money. A book is a good that took time and resources to create. A publisher invested into that good with the intent to make a profit, and having it available online for free without their consent circumvents that.
I’m not saying it’s ethical or that I agree with it, I’m just saying it makes sense.
having it available online for free without their consent circumvents that.
In this particular case the publishers are trying to double dip
Controlled Digital Lending is the library practice whereby a library owns a book, digitizes it, and loans either the physical book or the digital copy to one user at a time.
Publishers proceed not to buffalo buffalo buffalo sell half the books taken down anyway and eventually erase their own backups.
A sad and dark day.
Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive
Thoughts and Prayers 🙏
So is there some kind of backup? Something that can be put back online after the apocalypse or something?
Lamentable but copyright is a critical mechanism for protecting the rights of creators.
I know it’s a dumb idea but imagine how fun it would be if there was no copyright
