Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis...
by nanovision on Friday June 21, 2024 @11:11PM
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This is sad. If this was indeed copyright infringement, what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books? The Internet Archive has never been a pirate site, so there must have been some logic or justification for indexing these books.
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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis...
by CSMastermind on Friday June 21, 2024 @11:38PM
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> what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books
They believed they had the legal right to distribute the books.
You can read the whitepaper about it here: https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/