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Molly WhiteThe Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
nimstodon@molly0xfff oh no! 😥
Koen Hufkens, PhD@molly0xfff I'm dizzy with the cognitive dissonance given Sam Altman's take, saying the quiet part out loud, on copyright the other day.
Thom Zane@koen_hufkens @molly0xfff I'll bite. What did Sam say the other day?
Brandon@molly0xfff @thomzane @koen_hufkens the usual, just repeated: “we can’t make money without training on copyrighted works [for free].”
And he’s acting like that’s supposed to be a bad thing, which is weird
Dom DeLorenzo@molly0xfff incredible that this isn't fair use but AI is.
Steffi the Redhead@dominick @molly0xfff AI has money for bribes. So it must be fair, right?
Force of Habit@molly0xfff Did this copyright thingy really start out to protect the public domain? Something must have been gone horrible wrong.
jan AKO (alasa kili olin) 🌱@forceofhabit @molly0xfff
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. I’m sure, some people would want to make it 200 years, but 50 seems just reasonable for me.
Mark Fraser@molly0xfff The Internet Archive should rename itself as Archive Internet (AI) as that seems to be above any copyright laws.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@molly0xfff Fucking pathetic.
We got nazis in some states holding the equivalent (or literal) of book burnings, and now this.
nicolas ⁂@NosirrahSec @molly0xfff Hachette is owned by far-right billionaires, so not far.
Ricky Rigatoni@molly0xfff Losing the Internet Archive will be a tragedy as devastating as losing the Library of Alexandria. No exaggeration whatsoever.
fmc01@molly0xfff The US Court of Appeal not showing the wisdom of Solomon. Just devastating.
Mark vW@molly0xfff The resolution was the right one, though. I really hope we can get consumer-oriented internet library/copyright legislation enacted. The CoA was dead right on with the law, but the copyright law as it stands now is BS.
Aviva Gary
Richard Felix
Viss@molly0xfff time to hoard everything!
Hyde 📷 🖋 
@molly0xfff fuck hachette !
a mercurial mess of random thoughts@molly0xfff WHATTT
Internet Archive is amazing. As someone who lives in a country where books barely ever ship until 3 years after publication — if the book is popular enough — Internet Archive is the BESSSTT
Internet Archive is amazing. As someone who lives in a country where books barely ever ship until 3 years after publication — if the book is popular enough — Internet Archive is the BESSSTT
seg@molly0xfff it's fine, we can just archive them on the wayback machine!
hang on...
hang on...
My camera shoots fascistsStep 1: massively reform copyright law.
Step 2: straight to the guillotine for all Hachette executives and their lawyers.
Jörg Seidel@molly0xfff They should offer a button upon borrowing a book allowing the user to confirm they are an AI robot. Then it's legal.
Kevin RussellLet's restore copyrights, let's change some laws back before rich guys wrecked it. Let's remove more judges. Let's elect denocacy, fight sellouts.
Don Holloway@molly0xfff I think that it is in everyone's individual interest to call out the profiteering companies (Hachette et al) that filed the case and do what we can to 1. avoid their products. 2. Only access then through libraries.
glyn@emmorts You may already know of Molly.