Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program
Four of the nation's leading book publishers have sued the Internet Archive, the online library best known for maintaining the Internet Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive makes scanned copies of books—both public domain and under copyright—available to the public on a site called the Open Library.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program
Four of the nation's leading book publishers have sued the Internet Archive, the online library best known for maintaining the Internet Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive makes scanned copies of books—both public domain and under copyright—available to the public on a site called the Open Library.
#ia #internetarchive #internet #archive #lawsuit #copyright
Ars Technica
Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
Publishers call online library “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzeb5/this-senator-is-seemingly-obsessed-with-threatening-the-internet-archive
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In the wake of a raging pandemic, the Internet Archive has been working overtime to preserve internet history and expand the public’s access to digital library collections. That recently culminated in the creation of a National Emergency Library that made 1.4 million ebooks available to the public at a time when traditional libraries pose a health risk.
Increasingly, the organization’s reward has been a parade of headaches. Both from the entertainment industry and their loyal allies in Congress.
Last week, the archive’s emergency library was forced to dramatically scale back the effort thanks to a publisher lawsuit and political pressure from politicians like North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, who accused the organization of violating the country’s often draconian—and frequently ridiculous—copyright laws.
Now Tillis is taking aim at another Internet Archive effort, the Great 78 Project.
The Great 78 Project is a communal effort geared towards the preservation, research and discovery of the 3 million 78rpm discs produced between 1898 and 1950. Often made from far more fragile shellac than the resin commonly used today, many of these recordings are fragile, and the digitization effort has created a historical archive of some amazing work.
#InternetArchive
In the wake of a raging pandemic, the Internet Archive has been working overtime to preserve internet history and expand the public’s access to digital library collections. That recently culminated in the creation of a National Emergency Library that made 1.4 million ebooks available to the public at a time when traditional libraries pose a health risk.
Increasingly, the organization’s reward has been a parade of headaches. Both from the entertainment industry and their loyal allies in Congress.
Last week, the archive’s emergency library was forced to dramatically scale back the effort thanks to a publisher lawsuit and political pressure from politicians like North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, who accused the organization of violating the country’s often draconian—and frequently ridiculous—copyright laws.
Now Tillis is taking aim at another Internet Archive effort, the Great 78 Project.
The Great 78 Project is a communal effort geared towards the preservation, research and discovery of the 3 million 78rpm discs produced between 1898 and 1950. Often made from far more fragile shellac than the resin commonly used today, many of these recordings are fragile, and the digitization effort has created a historical archive of some amazing work.
Vice
This Senator Is Seemingly Obsessed With Threatening the Internet Archive
While the country deals with a pandemic and mass protests, Sen. Thom Tillis has repeatedly sent letters to the Internet Archive that warn its projects may be illegal.
The Internet Archive digital library was forced to withdraw from its “controlled digital loan” offer more than 500,000 books that it had legally acquired and digitized.
A self-censorship that many researchers, students, Wikipedians and readers deplore throughout the world.
Ask publishers to restore access to the 500,000 books they’ve caused to be removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library.
Let Readers Read | Internet Archive Blogs – https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/
#InternetArchive #Culture #Books #Library #InternetLibrary #DigitalLibrary
A self-censorship that many researchers, students, Wikipedians and readers deplore throughout the world.
Ask publishers to restore access to the 500,000 books they’ve caused to be removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library.
Let Readers Read | Internet Archive Blogs – https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/
#InternetArchive #Culture #Books #Library #InternetLibrary #DigitalLibrary
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The Internet Archive , home of The "Wayback Machine" has an "eBook and Texts Section" that has over 40 million texts, making it another good alternative to Amazon Books.
As suggest by Vinney on NOSTR, adding this as an OPDS (Open Public Distribution Source) source in your favorite e-reader is nice. The Librera App, available through F-Driod, comes with Project Gutneberg and Internet Archive already added as an OPDS.
Their "eBook and Texts" area offers:
- Over 20 million freely downloadable books
- 2.3 million eBooks that can be borrowed
- Digitizing Services if you want a book digitized
You can browse additional types of collections, such as videos, by going to The Internet Archive's home page and scrolling down.
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#InternetArchive
As suggest by Vinney on NOSTR, adding this as an OPDS (Open Public Distribution Source) source in your favorite e-reader is nice. The Librera App, available through F-Driod, comes with Project Gutneberg and Internet Archive already added as an OPDS.
Their "eBook and Texts" area offers:
- Over 20 million freely downloadable books
- 2.3 million eBooks that can be borrowed
- Digitizing Services if you want a book digitized
You can browse additional types of collections, such as videos, by going to The Internet Archive's home page and scrolling down.
⚡️ Follow Freedom Tech on NOSTR
#InternetArchive