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Jul 14 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
The publishers & lobbyists @AmericanPublish would have you believe their lawsuit is abt @internetarchive hurting poor authors.
But none other than @ChuckWendig writes "It’s not authors. It’s the publishers. They’re the ones doing this. Go be mad at them"
terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/07…
2/ More & more authors are speaking out against this lawsuit: @sgcarney NYT bestselling author of "What Doesn't Kill Us" writes:
3/ Bestselling author @neilhimself (Coraline, Stardust) has made himself clear writing "I've condemned the current legal case."
4/ Nonfiction writer @DawnofMercy depends on @InternetArchive for her research. She writes: "From experience, I know that discovering books via the Archive leads folks to buy ones they wouldn't have otherwise" 📚
5/ Science Fiction author @doctorow just happens to also be an expert on #copyright for @EFF. Hear his thoughts on the matter:
6/ An entire organization of authors @Auths_Alliance believes @internetarchive should win this case because #ControlledDigitalLending (CDL) is "fair use."
7/ And read the author's responses when the @AuthorsGuild takes the publisher's side in this lawsuit, quoting their ally @AmericanPublish CEO Maria Pallante (who btw made $497,306 in 2018) while "the median income of full-time authors is $20,300 per year."
8/ So when people tell you this lawsuit against @internetarchive is to defend the rights of authors, remember this:
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Jul 15
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…
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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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blog.archive.org/2021/10/19/dwe…
@ID_AA_Carmack @IPFS @WebTorrentApp @Filecoin @storj 3/ Few know it, but we've been a major convener of the DWeb. Follow our community at @GETDWeb & getdweb.net
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