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Surely they have the high quality scans, but there would probably be the same legal restrictions to just share the archive.
by smalltorch 2mo ago
Surely they have the high quality scans, but there would probably be the same legal restrictions to just share the archive.
- Filligree 2mo agoObviously. Copyright infringement is settled law.
- merely-unlikely 2mo agoCopyright infringement has a long and deep bank of caselaw but as Anthropic has already discovered, it is not entirely "settled."
- JKCalhoun 2mo agoI'm only one person, but I scan old books that had an impact on me growing up, and upload them to archive.org. Thankfully there are others that do the same. (And to be sure, FWIW, these are books that have not been printed for about 50 years—I suppose the software community would call them abandonware.)
- pessimizer 2mo agoIf they're 50 years old they're young, and archive.org will likely block access. If they're not already on annas-archive (or the copy there is trash), your best bet is an anon upload to libgen.
- JKCalhoun 2mo agoThanks. There was a time of course when you could pull my books down from archive.org as PDFs. Perhaps that time will come again. I'll look into libgen.
- ceasesurthinko 2mo agoArchive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet https://gist.github.com/cemerson/043d3b455317d762bb1378aeac3679f3 https://gist.github.com/cemerson/043d3b455317d762bb1378aeac3...