Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit
by kmeisthax on Friday July 31, 2020 @01:15AM
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Internet Archive doesn't have "anti-artist hatred", they think you should have first sale rights on digital versions of physical books. They have a legal argument for it, which I think is stupid, but it's a bit different from the 20,000 people on HN here arguing about how artists shouldn't own anything.
Speaking of which... copyright is not a union for writers. A union is a union for writers. Copyright creates an artificial market for their output, but it largely does not dictate how they are paid, only that they must authorize copying and distribution of the work. There are plenty of extremely exploitative publishing agreements out there that copyright law has zero qualms about.
Speaking of which... copyright is not a union for writers. A union is a union for writers. Copyright creates an artificial market for their output, but it largely does not dictate how they are paid, only that they must authorize copying and distribution of the work. There are plenty of extremely exploitative publishing agreements out there that copyright law has zero qualms about.