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Whilst I agree with their archival mission for the internet, I find it abhorrent that THEY are charging people to access other people's books (and not paying th
by david2020 6y ago
Whilst I agree with their archival mission for the internet, I find it abhorrent that THEY are charging people to access other people's books (and not paying the copyright holder anything).
Take a look at the screenshots at page 25 of the complaint filed before the court.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/06/01/publishers-lawsuit-internet-archive.pdf https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/06/01/publishers-lawsuit-interne...
The Authors' Guild said that the Internet Archive said:
"has no rights whatsoever to these books, much less to give them away indiscriminately without consent of the publisher or author."
and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) said:
"It is the height of hypocrisy that the Internet Archive is choosing this moment - when lives, livelihoods and the economy are all in jeopardy - to make a cynical play to undermine copyright, and all the scientific, creative, and economic opportunity that it supports."
- Narishma 6y agoWho is 'they'?