internetarchiveMar 20, 2023

🚨We’re standing up for the digital rights of all libraries today in court! Happening now: the Southern District of New York is hearing oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the lawsuit against our library. Here’s how you can help us defend the rights of libraries & readers:

✊Join the online rally: https://www.battleforlibraries.com/ @team
🗣Join the live blog: https://controlleddigitallending.org/2023/03/20/hachette-v-ia-liveblog/
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Battle for Libraries

Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.

Fight for the Future
Show threadANN07064061Mar 22, 2023
@internetarchive @team The publisher's argument accusing that the IA didn't pay publishers or authors is flat out wrong. Simply not paying? So if I donate a purchased book to a library, is that library responsible to pay to authors? Did they not know that people can buy products on their behalf? You might as well demand children to pay them just because their parents gave it to them.
Show threadANN07064061Mar 22, 2023
@internetarchive @team If you go to a bookstore, take a book off the shelf, read a few pages for a few seconds, and then put it back, is that stealing?
Show threadLady Talia
@ANN07064061 @internetarchive @team I once read a whole book that way - 10 pages a day for months.
Mar 23, 2023 at 8:26pmWeb