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Librarians are a pain in the ass to litigate against would be my guess. We're very detail oriented, we're organized, and we're very good at following procedure
by Mezzie 4y ago
Librarians are a pain in the ass to litigate against would be my guess.
We're very detail oriented, we're organized, and we're very good at following procedures. We're just as good at drawing things out as lawyers and burying us under tons of paperwork does nothing. Basically a lot of the tactics used to get big lawsuits over with quickly are much harder to execute against librarians. It becomes a war of attrition.
- SllX 4y agoI never thought of it that way before, but that tracks.
- Mezzie 4y agoWe also don't need to bill the lawyers for everything that most clients do. A lawyer for the IA can probably give them exact specifications for things like delivery of discovery documents and what they'd be looking for in them and get exactly what they need. So way fewer billable hours used for administrative tasks.
- Mindwipe 4y agoThat's not the case here. The IA lost the case because the testified in court they didn't actually check and had never built a mechanism to check that the libraries involved weren't letting out the physical books at the same time. They didn't do even the very basic of legal scholarship on the copyright situation for uncontrolled lending.
- Mezzie 4y agoLegally, the IA is in the wrong here. (I hate it because morally I side with the IA but yeah the courts aren't going to.) I was just addressing the 'how did they survive this long'? part. It's basically the flip side of places that leverage their superior legal resources to draw out lawsuits to get the other side to drop them/make them not worth the time. "We're going to be such a pain in the ass you're just going to quit out of sheer frustration." Personally, I think the IA fucked up really hard here.