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1/3 As most of you know, we are currently facing a lawsuit brought by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. #EmpoweringLibraries
2/3 Yesterday, both parties in the lawsuit filed summary judgment briefs. Today, we are hosting a press conference about this development. #EmpoweringLibraries
3/3 The press conference is invitation-only but we’ll be live-tweeting key moments throughout the morning. Stay tuned. #EmpoweringLibraries

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BIG NEWS: On 1/1 for the first time in history, every sound recording published since the invention of records thru 1922 entered the US #publicdomain.
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Did you know @ID_AA_Carmack that back in 2018, @InternetArchive started experimenting with @IPFS @WebTorrentApp & gun.eco?

You can see our prototype decentralized Archive here:
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LIVE w/ @TheRickWilson: "The @internetarchive is tremendously important. It's got some independence to it. It has a longer time horizon. Authoritarians HATE people with long memories..."
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