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Malte Engeler

They joked:

„If libraries were invented today they would be illegal.“

Well. It’s not a joke anymore:

wired.com/story/internet-archi

4 September at 20:34 | Open on legal.social
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Riley S. Faelan

@malteengeler Does Hachette's ownership overlap with any of the TV conglomerates?

Would it be feasible to organise a campaign of major TV shows not accepting Hachette's books for book tours anymore?

4 September at 20:38 | Open on toot.cat
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@malteengeler and at the same time they think about letting AI read everything for training, 2 justices one for rich and second for poor

4 September at 21:11 | Open on infosec.exchange
Kerry Mitchell

@dawae @malteengeler Copying full books without permission and making them available for free is similar to scraping the internet and using images without permission. In either case, the artist should be compensated and agree to the terms of use. The Internet Archive used the emergency as a pretence to try and undermine the most basic copyright protections on books.

4 September at 23:12 | Open on mastodon.social
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@KerryMitchell @malteengeler you visibly not are you aware on how it worked you had 1 drmed file you can read with a expiring date during the time where X read it Y CANNOT access it and must wait X give it back (by closing it’s lending period faster) or wait the end of the expiration

it exactly what a library do

4 September at 23:18 | Open on infosec.exchange
Kerry Mitchell

@dawae @malteengeler They did not maintain that 1-copy policy when they made the NEL: “The Open Library lent the books to one person at a time—but the NEL removed this ratio rule, instead letting large numbers of people borrow each scanned book at once.” wired.com/story/internet-archi

4 September at 23:33 | Open on mastodon.social
LisPi
@malteengeler @ireneista I don't think it was a joke to any of us aware of what copyright fascists stand for.
4 September at 21:12 | Open on udongein.xyz
zvhxxl

@malteengeler
In some countries libraries pay a compensation fee to publishers and/or writers, between 2 and 10 cents for every time a book is loaned out. This makes a library legal business.
Did Internet Archive offer to pay such a fee? I think I overlooked that in the news article.

4 September at 21:54 | Open on mastodon.social
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