Dear Commercial and Academic Publishers: when a scholar is using images drawn from library collections that are clearly in the public domain, the holding library CANNOT complete a "permission to publish" form, because the holding library DOESN'T HOLD THE COPYRIGHT.
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Dear Lynne: while itβs great that you managed to add coffee and water to the coffee maker, you do indeed ALSO have to PRESS the BUTTON to make coffee happen.
They done fucked up fair use for libraries and other legit uses for at least the next couple of decades. :headdesk: 5/5
Having an actual plan for building something better when you "disrupt" entire fields is key, and if you are fucking creators over, guess what? NOT ACTUALLY BETTER. 4/5
There was a world where they advocated for creators to be paid AND for access to materials that otherwise wouldnβt be available. They chose not to work towards that. 3/5
Yes, much of the digital preservation work they do is absolutely KEY. That said, I would much rather they had put their weight towards FIXING COPYRIGHT AND IP LAWS rather than breaking them to see if that would shove things the way they wanted them to go. 2/5
I am a librarian in my day job and a publisher in my side hustle. To say that I have mixed feelings about the Internet Archive ruling is a massive understatement. I think IA has fucked over BOTH libraries and authors by pretending to be one and then the other when it suited them and being NEITHER. 1/5
