A look at four publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20
With oral arguments of this monumental case set to begin on Monday (yes THIS Monday), here's Maria Bustillos (@maria) with a post today on what's at stake as Big Publishing and the Copyright Cartel looks to effectively kill …
AI spam can be checked against info in the Internet Archive, but publishers want it closed, so ebooks become like movies & music: Impermanent, not something we can own, only accessible under lease, like a movie on Netflix. If info access is privatized, books can be disappeared. h…
Maria Bustillos writes in The Nation about the Internet Archive lawsuit over digital book-lending, and also Tyler Cowen's AI-written post about Francis Bacon and the printing press and how AI could pollute search: https://www.thenation.com/...