Today as Panzer entered the Catosphere he was surprised to hear clapping and cheering coming from outside the Panzermobile. Following all the happiness, took our kitty pilot to the
Publishers Weekly site. With no digging at all he found a post about the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library was causing all the noise.
According to a post by Andrew Albanese, since the Internet Archive and it's National Emergency Library are being sued for copyright infringement, the Internet Archive (IA) has shut down the National Emergency Library. Panzer told you about this lawsuit when it was filed. Four publishers filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive for scanning books and letting people have copies. All of this is being done without the authors' or publishers' permission and without payment to them. The IA says they can do it because they are a "library." The National Emergency Library was something IA setup during the Covid-19 pandemic to give people access to scanned textbooks as well as the other books they already had. The judge has yet to make a ruling in the lawsuit. There are several links to other information about the lawsuit and the Internet Archive included in the post.
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| Repeat after me: Stealing is stealing. |
Panzer says, "Anybody can call themselves a library."
Note: This is a long post. Bring a cup of tea and two muffins for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow all the links and read all the other posts, bring a gallon of tea, two dozen muffins, your dinner, and a sleeping bag for a nap in the middle of your reading.
To read the post tootle over to
Internet Archive's National Emergency Library
To read Panzer's earlier post tootle over to
Internet Archive copyright infringement
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