Geoff RothmanMar 2, 2023
internetarchive

The lawsuit we're fighting isn’t just about the Internet Archive. It will determine the future of all libraries & their patrons, including those with print disabilities. #Accesstoknowledge for diverse communities will be impacted 🌍

Over the next 20 days until we go to court, we’ll be giving you 20 reasons to care about this lawsuit. We can’t wait to introduce you to the teachers, doctors, journalists & many more who rely on our lending library #EmpoweringLibraries https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive

Hachette v. Internet Archive

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co-counsel Morrison Foerster LLP, is defending the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program.The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, preserving and providing access to cultural artifacts...

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Show threadBernhard HussMar 1, 2023
@internetarchive very important! Thank you so much! I cross my fingers for your cause and will boost all relevant toots.
Show threadweems :verified:Mar 1, 2023
@internetarchive It is awful you have to fight just to survive and for all libraries to survive. I wish more would join the suit like the ALA since it affects all libraries not just ones on the internet. Particularly in a environment where books are being banned the internet is more important to evade such awful censorship and authoritarian control. Not just of books but of the mind itself. Which is their actual goal.
Show threadDorin CojocariuMar 1, 2023
@internetarchive
Let's fight against "Sue Happy". And "Ruth Less".
Show threadHue StLMar 1, 2023

@internetarchive Is this from when you decided to become the pirate bay for currently published works by living authors?

It may determine the future of all libraries, but not in the way you're implying. Just thinking about the people who were sad the manga series they read from pirate websites were discontinued.

Show threadHue StLMar 1, 2023

@internetarchive A lot of what you do it good. But keeping authors from getting paid for their work is a bad move that jeopardizes the good things the internet archive does.

https://nwu.org/authors-object-to-the-internet-archives-book-piracy/

Authors Object to the Internet Archive’s Book Piracy | NWU

Reaffirming our longstanding objections to the Internet Archive's distribution of unauthorized digital copies of books in which our work has been published, the NWU has joined almost two dozen national and international organizations of writers, photographers, and visual artists in a friend of the court brief in opposition to the Internet Archive's book-scanning and so-called

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Show threadinternetarchiveMar 1, 2023
@HueSatLight Libraries don’t keep authors from getting paid. Libraries are discovery engines for authors. One person at a time can borrow our books.
Show threadAskPippa🇨🇦Mar 1, 2023

@internetarchive @HueSatLight Libraries pay publishers a special licensing fee for books (print and digital), and authors do get paid for these markets. The lending of books, including digital, is restricted.

Generally, authors do not get paid much for books. Advances are small, royalties aren't very big, and many publishing companies are barely surviving (especially small publishing houses). Many authors make their books pay by doing paid public speaking, school visits, lectures, etc.
In Canada, a best seller is selling about 3,000 copies of your book. That's it. Usually, authors have to do their own promotion.
This article covers what happens in the US.

https://www.janefriedman.com/what-do-authors-earn-from-digital-lending-at-libraries/

What Do Authors Earn from Digital Lending at Libraries? | Jane Friedman

Does library lending help or hurt author and publisher income? The debate continues.

Jane Friedman
Show threadYves L. Jardin-NoamMar 1, 2023
@internetarchive for donations to fight the suit, should we make general donations or is there a specific url/fund to support?
Show threadbureauxxMar 1, 2023
@internetarchive YOU ARE DOING A VERY GOOD JOB! THANKS!
Show threadErik Uden => [email protected]Mar 1, 2023
Keep it real, IA
Show threadVoradams Mar 2, 2023
@internetarchive this is not a new idea, as publishers hate the idea of libraries and lending and have done so for years. What they see is all the unrealised sales of their products.
Show threadBen_KingMar 2, 2023
@internetarchive great article.
Show threadmsgbiMar 2, 2023
@internetarchive @charles_ex
Show threadrudi51Mar 13, 2023
@internetarchive G. Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
see e.g.:
https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/29/study-spains-google-tax-news-shows-how-much-damage-it-has-done/
Study Of Spain's 'Google Tax' On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done

As you may recall, governments across Europe, generally at the behest of traditional newspaper publishers, have been pushing for what they call an “ancillary copyright,” but which is mu…

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