Molly WhiteSep 12, 2024

Newsletter: 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.

https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/

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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.

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Show threadMolly WhiteSep 12, 2024
My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: 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.
Show threadJames Gleick
@molly0xfff @ehud These are my beliefs, too. I don’t know any author who would disagree with one word. Please don’t fall for the ridiculous calumny that authors are somehow enemies of libraries. No one loves (or NEEDS) libraries more than authors do.
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Show threadOsma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦Sep 13, 2024

@gleick really, James? I recall you having been quite library hostile previously.
https://zirk.us/@JamesGleick/109688146386431708

@molly0xfff @ehud

James Gleick (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] My own books have been repeatedly made available for download in their “digital library.” They are not a library, and they don’t have the right.

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Show threadJames GleickSep 13, 2024
@osma If I say that I love liberal democracy and that Victor Orban’s Hungary does not qualify as a liberal democracy, that does not make me “quite democracy hostile.”