Copyright Violation Redux: The Internet Archive's National Emergency Library - Writer Beware

Panzer hasn't been to the Writer Beware site for a while so he decided to stop in there today. With a little digging in the posts he found one about the chaos the Internet Archive is causing.

According to Victoria Strauss at the Writer Beware site, the Internet Archive's (IA) National Emergency Library is causing financial harm to authors. The post addresses authors' concerns about IA's unauthorized use of their copyrighted books. IA is scanning authors' books and then giving the digital books to reader for free. The authors and their publishers receive no payment for their books. The post explains the Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) theory that it's okay for IA and libraries to make unauthorized scanned copies of books. There are several links to authors' groups sites, publishers' groups sites, and individual author's sites containing information about and problems with the Internet Archive. The post also includes instructions for how to get your books removed from the IA site.

Repeat after me: Stealing is wrong.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... And libraries agree with this CDL stealing thingy?"

Note: This is a humongous post. Bring a quart of tea and a baker's dozen of muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Internet Archive copyright infringement