Publisher, Author Groups Protest Library Book Scanning Program - Publishers Weekly

Today as Panzer was cleaning out the Panzermobile, he found something wadded up under the paw controls. Flattening it out, our fastidious kitty discovered it was a post from the Publishers Weekly site about book scanning. Panzer has been telling you about these ongoing protests for several weeks.

These human's don't care they're stealing?

According to Andrew Albanese, the National Writers Union (NWU) has joined the protest against controlled digital lending (CDL). The NWU joins 36 other national and international organizations against the CDL. The CDL allows the scanning of books and lending of the digital copies to readers. Since this is done without the authors and/or the publishers permission and without payment, the protesting organizations say it constitutes copyright infringement. The most visible of the "lenders" is the Internet Archive's Open Library. The post contains numerous links to several posts on other sites.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... So 37 national and international organizations are against it now. Are any of them ready to file a lawsuit yet?"

Note: This is a huge post. Bring a thermos of tea and half a dozen muffins for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links in the post, bring a gallon of tea, a gallon of cocoa and two dozen muffins. You also might want to bring a sleeping bag for a nap in the middle too.

To read the post tootle over to book scanning

To read Panzer's previous post which contains links to all his posts about the CDL (scroll up to the top to read the post), tootle over to  CDL