Post #3214961
2025-07-02 15:46 UTC
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world yes, Internet Archive is a library. Just online one.
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@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social 2025-07-02 15:52
@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - They call themselves a library, but that doesn't make it so. As discussed in the NWU explainer I linked to earlier in this thread, libraries *lend* books. Lending doesn't implicate copyright, because lending doesn't involve making copies. IA makes and distributes (unauthorized) copies. Scanning something and posting it on an unrestricted public web site isn't lending, it's publishing. IA is a pirate Web publisher, not a library.