Re:Key Defendant in Anna's Archive Lawsuit Denies Any Involv...
by musicale on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:54PM
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> DUBLIN, Ohio, 2 April 2024—OCLC has acquired cloudLibrary, a platform that offers access to a wide variety of digital content through libraries. The acquisition will help OCLC support public libraries in their efforts to successfully manage accelerated shifts to digital collections.
Perhaps this is what went wrong.
I expect Anna's Archive also "offers access to a variety of digital content through [the internet]", but without the sort of irritating restrictions that cloudLibrary might impose.
After humanity invented a library where billions of people could read nearly any book, we promptly burned it down with legal and technical restrictions, to satisfy a life+70 copyright regime enacted primarily to preserve the commercial value of a tiny fraction of works.
Perhaps this is what went wrong.
I expect Anna's Archive also "offers access to a variety of digital content through [the internet]", but without the sort of irritating restrictions that cloudLibrary might impose.
After humanity invented a library where billions of people could read nearly any book, we promptly burned it down with legal and technical restrictions, to satisfy a life+70 copyright regime enacted primarily to preserve the commercial value of a tiny fraction of works.