Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
by xhkkffbf on Thursday September 05, 2024 @11:18AM
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I'm very happy about this decision about CDL and I'm glad that the IA got smacked for being so obnoxious and anti-artist. But I'm also willing to turn a blind eye to the archive and the way back machine because they're useful and not really competition.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
by protocolture on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:13PM
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Right but thats not whats happening here.
IA is physically holding a physical copy of the book, and then on a 1 at a time basis, allowing digital access to that physical book.
It would be like, purchasing a copy of the new york times, scanning it, and letting people online read it one at a time. Which would be perfectly legal except for the scanning and online. It paints the law as insane, not IA as flagrant copying.
I can't just scrape nytimes.com and re-host it on my own website legally - that's clear copyright infringement. Google news quoting article excerpts was legally controversial, as was their book search function, and their archive option.
I always assumed website owners were just sorta turning a blind eye to archive.org because (a) it's slow and (b) it doesn't get indexed in google