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With the #ControlledDigitalLending #CDL case coming on Monday (3/20) @jziskina and I are excited to announce the release of “The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the #Library Mission.” [link at end of thread] /1 
The purpose of this paper is to outline the legal & other obstructions that #libraries have encountered from the publishing industry. Libraries have continued to perform their routine activities or made advancements to increase #access to the public in innovative ways... /2
...yet, #libraries and their readers have routinely engaged in lengthy battles to defend the ability for libraries to fulfill their mission and serve the #publicgood.
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"
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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"
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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."
This shouldn't be news but it is.
@PMPressOrg is actually selling its ebooks to @internetarchive so we can loan them out, one copy at a time thru #ControlledDigitalLending.
Most publishers make libraries lease ebooks, like a car.
So buying ebooks? 👍
blog.archive.org/2020/09/21/pm-…
@PMPressOrg is actually selling its ebooks to @internetarchive so we can loan them out, one copy at a time thru #ControlledDigitalLending.
Most publishers make libraries lease ebooks, like a car.
So buying ebooks? 👍
blog.archive.org/2020/09/21/pm-…
@PMPressOrg Says @PMPressOrg Publisher Ramsey Kanaan: "The industry has entered into this agreement with libraries for time immemorial...I don’t see the difference in a library making a print or ebook available for borrowing once it’s purchased. It’s the same.”
@PMPressOrg 3/ Kanaan calls those opposing #ControlledDigitalLending "dinosaurs."
"We see the Internet Archive as a partner..to get our information out.
We’re fighting against the 1 percent who only want a better world only for themselves. I’m hoping..we're actually going to win this one.”
"We see the Internet Archive as a partner..to get our information out.
We’re fighting against the 1 percent who only want a better world only for themselves. I’m hoping..we're actually going to win this one.”
Video of @KyleKCourtney @HarvardLibrary Copyright Advisor on the legal rights of #libraries to buy & lend books through #ControlledDigitalLending.
"Libraries are special creatures of copyright law."
blog.archive.org/2020/08/27/har…
"Libraries are special creatures of copyright law."
blog.archive.org/2020/08/27/har…
@KyleKCourtney @HarvardLibrary From @KyleCourtney of @HarvardLibrary:
"This may be about the fear of technology, certainly, but technology should be used to enhance access to materials, and do what libraries have always done: increasing access to knowledge by loaning the materials to the public."
"This may be about the fear of technology, certainly, but technology should be used to enhance access to materials, and do what libraries have always done: increasing access to knowledge by loaning the materials to the public."
@KyleKCourtney @HarvardLibrary @KyleCourtney 3/ "So imagine the potentially enormous high social and scholarly value and relatively low risk if we make these works available to the public for reading, quoting, citing, adaption, using Wikipedia articles."
In this week's @BeyondTheBook, @PublishersWkly's top #Copyright reporter @AndrewRichard Albanese in an honest exchange on the publishers lawsuit against the @InternetArchive:
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Some key points by Andrew Albanese:
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Some key points by Andrew Albanese:
@BeyondTheBook @PublishersWkly @AndrewRichard 2/ @InternetArchive & #libraries...would say they'd pay for the scan but that option isn't available...The only option...for most trade books is a temp expensive ebook license. I actually think that’s a pretty critical Q that could arise in this lawsuit: the library ebook market.
@BeyondTheBook @PublishersWkly @AndrewRichard 3/ @InternetArchive makes what to me is a huge point & is going to be a huge point in the suit. I quote: “The public derives tremendous benefit from the program, while rights holders will gain nothing if the public is deprived of this resource."
...I think it sounds about right.
...I think it sounds about right.
#ControlledDigitalLending is a method by which #libraries loan books. Publishers are suing to get rid of CDL for good. This is not just an @internetarchive lawsuit, it is an attack on all libraries rights to loan, preserve, & provide access to books. blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/int… /1
Ultimately, this suit about how libraries can continue do what they have always done: lend books. #ControlledDigitalLending is not a brand-new concept. Libraries have loaned books to patrons for centuries. And #libraries DO NOT NEED permission or a license to loan these books /2
Libraries can legally loan books they have purchased or acquired. #Copyright law covers these exact uses. So why are publishers suing over #ControlledDigitalLending? /3
The @internetarchive is a library, and, like any library, it is allowed to scan the books in its collection and circulate them to its patrons (under precedent set in the Hathi Trust case).
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It does so using #ControlledDigitalLending - AKA DRM - the same tool that publishers insist that other libraries use.
The Archive also works with many academic and municipal libraries across the country to help them digitize and circulate their collections.
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The Archive also works with many academic and municipal libraries across the country to help them digitize and circulate their collections.
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These ebooks - most of which have no official electronic edition - are widely used by print-impaired patrons, including visually impaired people, people with dyslexia, and people with physical disabilities who struggle to handle books.
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