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 threadDavid Mitchell 

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It’s very important to highlight how new copyright law and intellectual property is in the big picture. They were introduced as exceptions to the norm that were necessary for one specific purpose or another, but have now been perverted: aggressively and avariciously expanded to be the new norm, with libraries and the like painted as exceptions - often as unnecessary or disposable exceptions.

Access to information *is* a human right.

Sep 13, 2024 at 3:49pmWeb