Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️Jun 30

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

Show threadEdward HasbrouckJul 1
@Yuvalne - The Internet Archive never lent books. They made and distributed an unlimited number of unrestricted copies of each book, with a public URL for a scanned image of each page of each book: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/
What is the Internet Archive doing with our books? | NWU

The NWU presented a public informational webinar on “What is the Internet Archive doing with our books?” on April 27 and May 5, 2020. The webinar explains "Controlled Digital Lending", the "National Emergency Library", and "One Web Page for Every Page of Every Book": Video of webinar Slides from webinar Related articles: We Need Federal

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Show threadRhialto
@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne that is not true. They had books for which you had to log in to view them at restricted url. Only one person at a time could do that. I know because there was a book I wanted to read and I had to go through this procedure.
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Show threadEdward HasbrouckJul 1
@rhialto @Yuvalne - Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here:
https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/
What is the Internet Archive doing with our books? | NWU

The NWU presented a public informational webinar on “What is the Internet Archive doing with our books?” on April 27 and May 5, 2020. The webinar explains "Controlled Digital Lending", the "National Emergency Library", and "One Web Page for Every Page of Every Book": Video of webinar Slides from webinar Related articles: We Need Federal

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Show threadRhialtoJul 2
@ehasbrouck @Yuvalne So, summarizing: the statement " The Internet Archive never lent books." is not true, since I showed how they did. Restricting access to one person at a time is as close as you can get with digital media.
Show threadEdward HasbrouckJul 2
@rhialto @Yuvalne - They dont restrict access to one person at a time. They claim to do so, but actually they put image of each scanned book page on unrestricted web with unique url. See the walkthrough in the NWU explainer I linked to earlier.