You mean in term of internet archives mission and where it can do the most good? I would agree.
Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Books are less valuable than a record of the state of the digital space, through time.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 days ago
Indeed, I consider this to be an okay outcome. It's the Internet Archive, not the All Information Ever Archive. It archives the Internet. There are other projects archiving books.
And it's the Internet Archive, not the Internet Barely Disguised Pirate Bay. I'm okay if the data they're archiving isn't super easy to access by everyone all the time, as long as it's being preserved. Someday eventually copyright law might become sane again, at which point these archives can come out of their bunkers. Until then those bunkers are important for keeping them safe.
I really think the Internet Archive did a downright stupid thing poking this bear with a stick. I'm relieved they survived and I hope they learned from the experience.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Copyright should not apply to a historic record, but things don’t become historic record upon creation, but sometime after. However, you can’t have a historic record if it isn’t recording history as it happens so…once enough time passes to make a historic record case versus copyright how do you add back the stuff that wasn’t recorded at the time?
The removal of this content is itself now historic record so tag the missing information and why there is a black hole where the record should be. Digital history, and thus history, as swiss cheese because the value of copyright matters more than accuracy of the history of the digital age itself. It is a tragedy to the future that we can’t record reality because someone claims they own it…
We are a stupid, stupid species.
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
You archive it but don’t publish it.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That might be a viable option.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes, the archiving and republishing would be illegal in most countries, but not in the US. Fair Use
They didn’t face trouble over archiving the net, but over digitally lending e-books and audio.
dread@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Had a similar conversation over in Mastodon recently and yeah, this is a very fair point. The indiscriminate scanning and publication of copyrighted books shouldn’t have happened in the first place, especially when there are existing ecosystems for ethical lending/leasing/borrowing of books already in place, which benefit and are working with authors/publishers already.