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.@brewster_kahle: Re: publishers suing @InternetArchive: “I call on...Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House to come together with us to help solve the challenging problems...during this pandemic & drop this needless lawsuit."

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2/ @EFF's @cmcsherr: "Creating obstacles to the right to lend and borrow books just doesn’t serve the purposes of copyright. It doesn’t serve authors, it doesn’t serve publishers, and it certainly doesn’t serve the public. We expect the court will agree.”
@EFF @cmcsherr .@brewster_kahle: "W/ this suit, the publishers are saying in the digital world, [libraries] cannot buy books anymore. We can only license them, & under their terms..And, we cannot lend what we’ve paid for, b/c we don’t own it. It’s not the rule of law, it's the rule of license."
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In @bloomberglaw’s paywalled article, @EFF’s @cmcsherr says, "Internet Archive's legal position is straightforward: controlled digital lending is sheltered by fair use and other time honored limits and exceptions."

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2/#Copyright Scholar @PamelaSamuelson of @BerkeleyLaw in @bloomberglaw: "It's really tragic at this time the publishers would try to cut off even access to a digital public library like the Internet Archive is running...The idea that lending out a book is illegal is just wrong."
@PamelaSamuelson @BerkeleyLaw @bloomberglaw 3/ @Harvard Copyright Advisor @KyleKCourtney in @bloombergLaw: Shifting well-established library functions to e-books...meshes with the Constitution's stated goal of promoting the arts..."If it's not digital, it's almost like it doesn't exist. Libraries want to provide access."
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According to @a16z, 98% of what you're reading online today will be lost by 2040. In "How to Close the Web's Memory Hole?" podcast, @InternetArchive's @brewster_kahle & @ArweaveTeam's Sam Williams on how libraries & #DWeb protocols are filling the hole.
podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…
2/ @brewster_kahle "The idea was to build a Library of Alexandria for the digital age. Could we go & make all the published works of mankind available to everybody? In computer readable form so we could build a global brain. But a lot of the actual published works aren't there."
3/ @brewster_kahle "If you don't have referenceable materials, either through the web era or back through the 20th century, you could just make things up. And we're suffering from that right now."
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