The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.
I think we need to start caring about how laws affect the preservation of data, this is ridiculous.
They only issue here is that they stopped following the “one book one rental” rule. You’re allowed to “rent” out a digital copy but only if you have a physical version of the book not lent out. They stopped doing that during covid
I believe even “one book one rental” was kind of a gray area. Publishers probably didn’t sue at the time as the potential ruling was less certain, and they didn’t want a precedent not in their favour.
I wonder if you would feel that way if you were one of the artists whose copyrighted media was distributed illegally?
Also as if the artist are actually paid much of anything by the publishers. Focus on the actual problem next time
Let me guess if you have read the thing you are making comments about.
What would you say are my odds?
100000:1?
Well for one, piracy often helps artists by getting their media in the hands of more people, hence more exposure
The problem is that copyright last way to fucking long and they keep extending it. It should be the same as patents… 15 years I think. I’m just going to keep xdcc get whatever I want until they fix it.
I agree, but the internet archive doesn’t have the authority to roll the duration back right? So it was illegal. We all agree the law needs to change, but it is still the law currently.
Well the average career is 30 years. So you think that if I was to start a photography business that at the end of my 30 year run, half of my career should be publicly available? That means that people could use half of my life’s work without owing me any compensation? Copyright protects a lot of small creators, not just Disney and the likes.
I always make sure all my work are freely avaliable on the internet, even when I have to pay to do so.
Same here. Every project I have ever worked on is available on github. Even my job open sources its tools.
You realize this is about books right? This is about free and easy access to books. Like a digital library. Don’t be ridiculous.
And what do you do for a living? I would like to access that free as well…