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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by asadotzler on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:46PM (#41453282)
>The ruling discusses this starting on page 33. The gist is that they set up a non-transformative service that is substantially equivalent to competing ebook services and CDLs, but unlike those it is not paying the customary price to publishers.

The question was "how is this hurting authors" and your reply is to carry water for publishers?

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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by bryanrasmussen on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:42AM (#41453864)
as lousy and inefficient a system as the one we mainly have is, as a theoretical rule in this system authors get some share of the money that goes to publishers.
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