Inside the Little Plastic Castle

Given my earlier link to the Open Library’s announcement they were lifting limits on how many people can borrow from their extensive scanned book collection "for the duration", I was surprised and enlightened to read about opposition from authors.

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ETA 31 Mar 2020

Ah! I found meaningful discussion and links about this on Metafilter:
https://www.metafilter.com/186248/The-Internet-Archives-National-Emergency-Library

Two informative Twitter threads for those who dare to enter the doomscroll

From rahaeli (aka denise)

This is a specific test case being put to the public in order to challenge the doctrine of first sale as applied to ebooks, and it's in direct response to the exorbitant prices and significant restrictions publishers place on libraries.

thread start https://mobile.twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1244257620548038656?s=20

From AlexandraErin

...okay, and I'm getting that a lot of people don't like the idea of copyrights period. Information Wants To Be Free and all that. But your revolution needs an order of operations. If you kill the copyright first, while we're all still toiling under capitalism, you hurt workers.

Thread start https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1244309400690491393?s=20