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Federal Courts Are Cracking Down on the #InternetArchive

A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.

In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free #books , media, and software—in a #copyright case with significant implications for publishers, #libraries , and readers
#fairusedoctrine #fairuse

https://reason.com/2024/11/10/courts-are-coming-for-digital-libraries/

Federal Courts Are Cracking Down on the Internet Archive

C.J. Ciaramella (Reason Magazine)
#copyright #InternetArchive #books #libraries #fairuse #fairusedoctrine

Librarians are (social) heroes; stepping up when other social services have fallen away, to help those with few other places to go...

No wonder the Right wants to defund the libraries (via attrition against local authorities), when you look at the pragmatic but vital social support they are offering to the vulnerable & isolated.

[this is a long read but worth it]

#Libraries #inequality
@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/25/how-britains-libraries-provide-more-than-books
#libraries #inequality @bookstodon group

"Ethics" is not the only problem with generative A.I. -- *epistemology* is broken too.

My latest for Public Books: in the face of #google telling us to eat rocks, we bought an encyclopedia.

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/

Companion blog post here:

https://www.optoutproject.net/what-is-true-on-the-internet/

#AI #ethics #EthicsInAI #knowledgeinfrastructures #libraries

Why I bought an Encyclopedia

NOTE: This is a companion post to my piece in Public Books, 'The Encylopedia Project: Or, how to know in…
Janet Vertesi
#ai #google #libraries #ethics #ethicsinai #knowledgeinfrastructures

CCH Turns 20 – Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmark Copyright Case That Ushered in Users’ Rights https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/03/lawbytespodepisode194/ #copyright #canada #libraries

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 194: CCH Turns 20 - Scott Jolliffe Goes Behind the Scenes of the Landmark Copyright Case That Ushered in Users' Rights - Michael Geist

Twenty years ago today the Supreme Court of Canada released CCH Canadian v. Law Society of Upper Canada, a decision that stands as perhaps the most consequential in Canadian copyright law history as it would firmly establish fair dealing as a users r…
Michael Geist
#copyright #canada #libraries

I mean, would it kill you to let Cathy tell you about her ferrets?

#library #libraries #reader #readers #books #book #writingcommunity #ferrets #humor #humour
Three signs -- one says Library Book Return and is on a book drop return slot. Drop box is broken! Please visit Cathy inside to return books Update! Drop box is NOT BROKEN! Cathy is just super lonely and wants to talk to you about her nine ferrets.
#book #humour #humor #writingcommunity #books #libraries #library #readers #ferrets #reader

"#Florida school district removes dictionaries from #libraries, citing law championed by #DeSantis"
https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries

PS: It turns out to be a myth that Victorians covered piano legs for the sake of modesty. But one day people will hear that Floridians removed dictionaries from school libraries for the sake of modesty, or prudery, or protecting the children, and wonder whether it's a myth. The truth will be out there, but not in Florida libraries.

#BookBans #Censorship

@academicchatter

Florida school district removes dictionaries from libraries, citing law championed by DeSantis

The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law.
Judd Legum (Popular Information)
#florida #censorship #libraries #bookbans #desantis @AcademicChatter group

The thing they don’t mention is that now we can avoid overdue library fees by borrowing novels electronically. This has helped me get off my device and back into my old reading habit on my device. 😉

#Libraries
#libraries

‘The incentive to steal isn’t there’: the lost cause of tracking library theft https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/09/the-incentive-to-steal-isnt-there-the-lost-cause-of-tracking-library-theft #auslaw #libraries
#auslaw #libraries

#Libraries for the future: #Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’ - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/08/libraries-for-the-future-europes-new-wave-of-meeting-places-for-the-mind "From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city" nice
#europe #libraries

"Libraries are about books and reading, of course. But they are also about providing people with a 'third place' for programming, services, and socializing; they are one of America’s only truly cross-class spaces, [Emily] Drabinski [of ALA] noted."

~ Lora Kelley

#libraries #books #education #SocialSpace #PublicSpace #CommunityResource
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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/library-gen-z-readers/676963/

What Gen Z is finding at the library

Young people really do read print books.
Lora Kelley (The Atlantic)
#education #books #libraries #socialspace #publicspace #communityresource

Trinity College Dublin recently received a collection of more than 50 fore-edge paintings, and they are all viewable in a new online exhibition. Fore-edge paintings are one of my favorite things to show visitors—fanning out the text block to reveal a little scene feels like a magic trick. https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/bindings/

#Libraries #SpecialCollections
Scene of a long building along a waterfront, painted on the edge of a book
#libraries #specialcollections

A good example of why #libraries exist. A #library contains the #books we need, when we need them. There was nothing available to me as a sexually abused 11-year-old in the 1970s. I am grateful my kids have been able to find their way to the books they needed, and I will work to protect that access for my grandkids.
#BannedBooks #BookChallenge
#books #libraries #library #bannedbooks #bookchallenge

Universal Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Capitol, and other record labels filed a copyright lawsuit on Friday against Internet Archive, founder Brewster Kahle, and others over the organization’s “Great 78 Project,” accusing them of behaving as an “illegal record store.” The suit lists 2,749 pre-1972 musical works available via Internet Archive by late artists, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Chuck Berry, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby, among others. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-412-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-1234806058/ #copyright #music #internetarchive #libraries

Internet Archive Sued for Copyright Infringement by Major Labels

Complaint claims organization’s “Great 78 Project,” which includes music from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and more serves as an “illegal record store”
Althea Legaspi (Rolling Stone)
#music #copyright #InternetArchive #libraries

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