Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.
  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    There are a lot of books that are out of print, especially reference books. And if you look for them on Amazon or eBay, they’ve been snapped up by scalpers who are reselling them for obscene profit.

    Either make the books available for sale or quit complaining about “copyright infringement.” But whatever you do, quit hoarding knowledge like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Exactly. Copyright should be nullified if there’s no longer first party sales.

      We should also go back to the original copyright duration: 14 years with an optional, one-time extension for an additional 14 years.

      • aliteral@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        If something does not sell anymore, automatically should go public domain or open source. Games, for example.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You know, this thread really needs a list of of the publishers responsible for this travesty.

    “Publishers Hachette Book Group Inc, HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons Inc and Penguin Random House LLC” - According to Reuters

    • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, kinda funny how it’s OK when there’s a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

  • ChowJeeBai@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Welp, hope they’re backed up somewhere in an uncentralised, segmented, shareable form where people can still access them from the internet.

  • NotNotMike@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal

    I guess this answers that

    • cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        Which IA failed to do, which is why they got sued, and why they can’t lend those publishers’ books at all anymore.

        I have no sympathy.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Just want to let you know why you’re being downvoted. It’s not because you’re wrong. From a legal perspective you’re right. This court case was decided this way because you’re right.

          But that last line about having no sympathy. There’s a meme for this.

          “You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole.”

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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            3 months ago

            It’s an asshole perspective that the IA dearly needs to listen to. Don’t poke a bear when you have so much to lose. Doesn’t matter if you’re “in the right”. The history books are littered with the corpses of righteous people.

            Let the EFF handle the quixotic battles, it’s what they’re best at.

            • stembolts@programming.devEnglish
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              3 months ago

              “No one should stand up for new rights. Don’t rock the boat bro.”

              Your mindset is the road to a dictatorship.

              What does the Mafia do? Show up, “Wow you got a lot of valuable things here Be a shame if someone broke them. Best listen to us.”

              The Mafia leverages potential of damage to existing value to extract cooperation.

              I see very little difference here between the Mafia and the plaintiff.