This week a federal judge laid out the timeline in lawsuit by 4 mega-publishers v. @internetarchive. Both sides have til 12/1/20 to enter settlement talks with a judge or be ready for trial by 11/12/21.
Archive founder @brewster_kahle: "We had hoped to settle this needless lawsuit.”
“Right now the publishers are diverting attention and resources from where they should be focused: on helping students during this pandemic.”
@brewster_kahle Says @HarvardLibrary#Copyright Advisor @KyleKCourtney: "It undermines the ability of the public (taxpayers!) to access the materials purchased with their money for their use in public libraries...It's short sighted...& not in the best interest of the public.”
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From @communia_eu: "The [Hachette v. Internet Archive] decision highlights more general problems with the e-lending business model, not just in the US but also in the EU....Six issues stand out in particular:" 🧵
"1. Licensing contracts expire and need to be renewed after a certain number of loans, in theory simulating the physical degradation of books, but leading to disproportionate prices overall."
"2. Many ebooks are only licensed to libraries after a windowing period to avoid competition during the market introduction of a book, leading to undue delays for library users."
Disappearing titles are bad for libraries & the patrons we serve. Libraries want to #OwnBooks.
With VHS & DVD, libraries could buy sets, lend to patrons & safeguard copies for cultural posterity. With streaming, the shows just vanish 👻 We don’t want books to suffer the same fate! We want a digital future for libraries where they can own & preserve digital books. #OwnBooks
A group of intellectual property law professors lead by @rtushnet submitted a “friend of the court” brief in support of @internetarchive and controlled digital lending today in our case against Hachette, PRH, HarperCollins and Wiley. 🧵eff.org/document/hache…
@rtushnet 2/ The law professors’ brief notes that nonprofit libraries “serve important democratic interests” and “enable a richer, more democratic culture.”
3/ They explain that, in contrast to @internetarchive’s CDL, the publisher’s “putative licensing alternatives regularly come with policies that harm the larger mission of libraries to preserve information and make it available to citizens on a nondiscriminatory basis.”