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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Their distribution of books is completely legal.

Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

That's why the Archive is appealing: they still believe they are right.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    There's really no credible argument that their distribution of books even might be legal.

    Their only defense is fair use, and there's no precedent for a "fair use" defense justifying copying a work wholesale for mass distribution. (Yes, "one copy at a time" to multiple people is mass distribution.) Copying a whole work has effectively only qualified as fair use when that copy is not re-distributed, and is actually for a personal backup.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Their distribution of books is completely legal.

    Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

    You just contradicted yourself in two sentences.

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