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Johan Sköld

@CStamp @lio @internetarchive You must have missed how the IA library works. Quoting the blog post:

> We purchase and acquire books—yes, physical, paper books—and make them available for one person at a time to check out and read online.

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@rhoot @CStamp @lio @internetarchive

The problem is, IA "Library" broke this role intentionally, which caused the lawsuit.

Carolyn

@hittitezombie @rhoot @lio @internetarchive They need to actually have an agreement with the copyright owners. "The original lawsuit was filed by the publishers in June 2020 and argued that the Internet Archive had digitized “millions of print books and [distributed] the resulting bootleg ebooks free of charge from its site, without the consent of the publishers and their authors or the payment of any license fee.”"

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@CStamp @rhoot @lio @internetarchive

Hachette sued IA when IA started distributing scanned content in an unlimited way, essentially providing online piracy, under the name "National Emergency Library".

They were not sued or threathened before this point.

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@CStamp @rhoot @lio @internetarchive

Finally this "500k books banned" malarkey is an outcome of an agreed negotiation. If IA didn't agree on this, they could continue litigation.

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