Battle for Libraries
www.battleforlibraries.com
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    You’re using the publisher’s arguments in your comment. If anybody’s interested, here’s the IA’s counter-argument. It boils down to the fact publishers are challenging practices that used to be considered fair use… just because they can.

    This decision has wide-reaching implications that will affect all libraries, not just the IA.

    Ultimately we’ll just have to see what the appeal decision will be.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Their counter-argument isn’t a legal argument. They’re saying they did it because they think the publishers aren’t being fair.

      And they’re talking mostly about format-conversion, which isn’t the problem here.

      You can absolutely make format conversions to digital for archival purposes. What you cannot do is them make a bunch of copies and give them away for free simultaneous use. That is not fair use. That’s 100% piracy.

      The CDL was built specifically to ensure that only one digital copy was on loan for each owned copy of the material because the IA absolutely knew that was the law.