They sued in 2020 over 127 books, after the Internet Archive expanded lending with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when brick-and-mortar libraries were forced to close, by lifting limits on how many people could borrow a book at a time.
But Koeltl said there was nothing "transformative" about the Internet Archive's digital book copies that would warrant "fair use" protection, as its ebooks merely replaced the authorized copies publishers themselves license traditional libraries.
If that were so, then every lending library violates copyright. By acquiring a book by gift, by purchase, or by finding it, the goal of the writer and publisher -- to sell the book, broadcast ideas, and educate readers has been achieved. Archive gives unmarketed books readers.
This is bad
booooo
The judge probably doesn’t even know what the internet is.
Books are too expensive because publishing, worldwide, is controlled by a tiny handful of companies who fix the prices. And they'll shut down any attempt to make books more accessible. They're jumped-up, petty tyrants, getting richer by making all humanity more ignorant 🙁
What about view the Tik-Tok on FB Reels or FB Reels in Tik-Tok,YouTube shorts in Facebook Reels and vice versa,reading content from twitter to telegram, and content from telegram to twitter etc? 😁
Nooooo!
Move the servers to Russia, please
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