“Library of Alexandria had to be set on fire after publishers’ court win”
The good news is, as far as I know, they don’t have to actually delete the data.
So at least these books have still been digitized if something changes and they are allowed to be accessed in the future. Some of them may not exist in physical form at this point, or only as one or two copies in an academic library.
It would be useful to have a list of the missing books for reasons.
I’ll see if i can find it.
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As much as this sucks, it could have been so much worse. The Internet Archive stays up. It’s important archives of things like industrial and educational films stay up. The Wayback Machine stays up.
So as disappointing as this is, I do have some relief because I thought it could mean the end.
So much of that stuff is public domain material, at least the older stuff like those films and some of the books
Right, but my worry was that if the IA went down, no one would be archiving it that didn’t have a commercial interest.
A large amount of the Prelinger Archives have been uploaded to YouTube. Which is great as a backup, but the IA is a noncommercial entity. I do not want for-profits controlling such archives. I’m glad that’s not a worry, at least not for now.
“To the contrary, the decision barely mentions copyright’s ultimate purpose of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts,” it said.
It feels like the thoughts of the past came straight out of fiction. Today, nothing seems worth anything if you can’t directly make money from it.
Crap I knew there was something I was supposed to do!
Publishers proceed not to buffalo buffalo buffalo sell half the books taken down anyway and eventually erase their own backups.
Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive
Thoughts and Prayers 🙏
A sad and dark day.
So is there some kind of backup? Something that can be put back online after the apocalypse or something?
Lamentable but copyright is a critical mechanism for protecting the rights of creators.
I know it’s a dumb idea but imagine how fun it would be if there was no copyright
