The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Aaaw. Publishers caring about authors? That’s a big fat lie. Make no mistake, no matter what type of publisher, be it literary, musical, dramatic (TV & film), the only goal is to consolidate ingellectual property, employ predatory and lobsided contracts and then pretend that they represent the creators.

    Fact is that lending, and also digital lending, has a negligible result on the author’s bottom line. The publishers however want libraries gone because then they make their investors happy. That’s it.

    Know the motivation and intention behind this, because it isn’t to protect the income of authors.