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Aug 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is why libraries need to be able to own digital media instead of just renting it from corporate landlords…who is preserving these shows?
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
Need a deeper dive? The economics around eBooks are…interesting. Check out this new podcast from @theindicator that covers the challenges around digital ownership & the lawsuit against our library: npr.org/2022/08/18/111…
More culture vanishing before our very eyes: variety.com/2022/digital/n… First they came for Big Bird…

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Aug 9
The Hachette vs Internet Archive lawsuit is about much more than our own library collection, explains @mariabustillos in @thenation. 🧵 thenation.com/article/cultur… #EmpoweringLibraries “In reality, the publishers...
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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…
@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.”
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Jul 14
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."
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Jul 14
Authors who support @InternetArchive:
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3/ "That site is fundamentally an author's friend."
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Jul 12
Did you know that the Internet Archive has a physical archive that houses millions of books (as in: actual, physical, paper books)? For every book that we lend to users online, we have a physical copy that is preserved in our archive. A 🧵
We get our books the same way as other libraries: we buy books and we receive donated books. Some of those donations come from libraries that are reevaluating their physical collections, like Hamilton Public Library: blog.archive.org/2021/05/26/beh…
And some books come to us from libraries that are shutting down forever, like Marygrove College. The school closed in 2019 & rather than sell off the collection, the Board donated the entire library to us for preservation & digitization: blog.archive.org/2020/10/20/dig…
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Mar 30
🖥️So, how many accounts & passwords do you have?
👀Research by one company finds that the average US citizen has more than 150 accounts & passwords to manage.
Crazy, right? 🧵👇
(1/4) #digitalidentity
2/ Many of us are trading #privacy & #security for convenience by handing over our personal data to big platforms that make it easier to log on...keeping our data along the way.
👉 Isn't there a better way forward?
#SSI #identity
3/ THIS THURS 3/31: Join us for an intro to #Decentralized Identity, and how this area of tech may help us keep our personal data, well...personal.
Hear from experts @whanamura @IdentityWoman, @lambo @GETJolocom's @IreneAdamski.
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