The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

  • cobra89@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It was the fact that during the pandemic they forwent the rule that 1 copy they owned could only be rented out to 1 person at a time. Any library operates by that principal for exactly this reason. Even digital copies, they can only lend out so many at a time. During the pandemic archive.org ignored this rule which was noble of them considering the circumstances, but now those consequences are coming back to bite them.

    Personally I think I was dumb to risk the whole Internet Archive to offer that and hopefully they use this as a lesson to consult more with their lawyers going forward.

    • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can literally photocopy every single page out of a book at a physical library.

      It’s not the paradigm, it’s the convenience and ease of access.