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ipatrol commented on The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive   storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/Signez
Dylan16807 · a year ago
> There is no reasonable definition of "copy" that would make the lending of a physical book a copy.

But it could count as distribution. Copyright covers that. Library style distribution could be just as illegal as CDL style copying, by barely changing anything.

ipatrol · a year ago
The point is that yes, digital items get treated differently by the law because using them requires "technical" copying. Moving them requires copying, using them requires copying, lending them requires copying. The law as written means that digital works will give their buyer far fewer rights than identical physical copies of the same. And yes, that's precisely why the current law is bananas, because it turns digitization into an excuse to enclose the commons. But I have no confidence in the courts to stop it, because that's not what courts do.
ipatrol commented on The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive   storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/Signez
hilbert42 · a year ago
Things will get worse before they're get better, but ultimately the publishers will pay dearly for this.

First, the IA should move to a more favorable copyright jurisdiction to preserve the collection.

Second, there's no point fighting the copyright lobby, especially so in the US. We need to build an alternative access to knowledge that bypasses the copyright/ownership of knowledge paradigm.

ipatrol · a year ago
I'm starting to think this is the case, but the US is a country that enforces its version of copyright with gunboats. Not an easy task to simply find another jurisdiction.
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