Cypher76Sep 13, 2024
Preston Austin

A few things publishers seek to bring an end to, with courts' help:

“Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.” @molly0xfff

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

Citation Needed
Sep 12, 2024 at 9:41pmYuito
Show threadPreston AustinSep 12, 2024
Publishers e-book lending “is also nothing like the model for physical booklending in the United States, where a library can lend out any book they want, whether they purchased it new directly from a publisher or bookseller, purchased it used, received it as a donation, or, hell, found it on the side of the road. They own the book, they can lend the book, no further discussion necessary...by fighting CDL, publishers are seeking to overstep the established boundaries of intellectual property law”
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 13, 2024
@gl33p the epub format came out a little over 20 years ago and that's how long they've been fighting to end libraries as we know them.
Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographySep 12, 2024
@gl33p @molly0xfff They can go #$^% themselves and they better come ready for a fight if they think they can get me to take down my Little Library
Show threadaltruios phasmaSep 13, 2024

@gl33p @molly0xfff
Publishers would have be so that highlight a book you bought violates copyright as you’ve modified the data…

Fucking troglodytes.

Copyright makes it so the publisher can pay you less for your own work: copyright harms workers (like pretty much any right wing policy).

Authors/artists/rational humans against copyright!

Show threadjakofieldsSep 13, 2024
@gl33p @molly0xfff Thank you for this!