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P J Evans
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P J Evans

@2du @internetarchive @brewsterkahle
If you have to ask, you're already on the wrong side.

15 Aug 2023 at 2:12 | Open on mastodon.social
ocdtrekkie

@2du @PJ_Evans @internetarchive @brewsterkahle From a practical standpoint, because it's the law, and being reckless and stupid and refusing to recognize it puts the IA's entire body of work at extreme risk.

15 Aug 2023 at 2:14 | Open on mastodon.social
P J Evans

@ocdtrekkie @2du @internetarchive @brewsterkahle
Generally, everything I get from IA is public domain. (I've been annoyed lately because even there, I can't see pages any more.)

15 Aug 2023 at 2:15 | Open on mastodon.social
ocdtrekkie

@2du @PJ_Evans @internetarchive @brewsterkahle Which is basically what everyone told the IA when it announced the National Emergency Library, but it did it anyways, and now it's going to get sued to pieces bit by bit.

It's like if the Library of Alexandria decided to set *itself* on fire.

15 Aug 2023 at 2:16 | Open on mastodon.social
Stephanie 🎀

@PJ_Evans @internetarchive @brewsterkahle what I don’t want to see is its public domain resources torn to shreds. I especially don’t want to see the loss of the Wayback Machine. Sue-happy crapitalists salivating at a big monetary win could devastate the entire project, including parts that don’t cross any legal boundaries. Personally, I hold more respect for the copyright of individual artists than big corporations.

15 Aug 2023 at 4:36 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
P J Evans

@BeamsAndBows @internetarchive @brewsterkahle
I want to keep the DS stuff and the Wayback Machine, too. But it would be nice if they could get permission to put up out-of-print and not-reprintable stuff (usually dead authors and non-findable estates.)

15 Aug 2023 at 4:50 | Open on mastodon.social
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