Molly WhiteThe Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
Force of Habit@molly0xfff Did this copyright thingy really start out to protect the public domain? Something must have been gone horrible wrong.
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My understanding is that the case is about whether it is "fair use" to share digital scans of their collection of copyrighted physical books as long as they only allowed one user to view the scan at a time (similar to lending physical books). Their collection of public domain materials should be unaffected. However, lawsuits are expensive.
My understanding is that the case is about whether it is "fair use" to share digital scans of their collection of copyrighted physical books as long as they only allowed one user to view the scan at a time (similar to lending physical books). Their collection of public domain materials should be unaffected. However, lawsuits are expensive.
That said, I recently used the IA lending library to access a scan of an old copyrighted book to research whether another work is public domain (it is!). This would not have been possible otherwise.
@thunderfree @molly0xfff My comment was aimed at the macro view of the copyright saga. Let me put it this way. Regardless of what you think about patents. Let us be friendly to creators and double the runtime and even make it a round number of 50 years. Everything above that is copyright gone wrong IMHO. Iām sure, some people would want to make it 200 years, but 50 seems just reasonable for me.