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internetarchive Jun 17, 2024

More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.

Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

Let Readers Read | Internet Archive Blogs

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Arcturax 🦇Jun 17, 2024

@internetarchive the problem with open letters is they are open to just throw them away and not care. We need fundamental change. Corps can embargo works for a century or more under current copyright law. We need a change. Anything more than 50 years should become public domain no matter what it is. To ask for longer is just pure greed.

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Hâlian

@arcturax @internetarchive Anything more than the terms of the Copyright Act of 1790 (14+14 years; both registration and renewal can only be done by the physical human author; registration requires depositing a physical copy with the Library of Congress; only one renewal) is far too much.