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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @downix and

      It may seem like an arbitrary distinction to you but arguing that restrictive terms on ebook lending means you don't want libraries to exist at all because ebooks and physical books are "the same thing" is disingenuous as hell

      2 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @downix and

      It's like saying that because a studio was willing to broadcast a TV show over the air "for free" they should be fine with recording the episode and throwing it up on YouTube for no additional money because it's "the same thing"

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    3. Buddy‏ @soc_lee 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @downix @neilhimself

      I understand you're upset, bro, but I'm not the one saying you shouldn't get paid. I literally just asked what libraries do for authors.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @soc_lee @downix @neilhimself

      Okay, and the answer is that libraries traditionally buy one physical copy of a book for every copy they have in circulation, so authors get paid in proportion to how much "bandwidth" their "file" uses on the physical shelves

      1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @soc_lee and

      Publishers negotiate licenses for ebooks based on how much more they think ebooks being available for free will cut into sales than physical lending, and scale their fees based on how many copies the library will allow to be "borrowed" at once

      2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @soc_lee and

      What IA has done that's pissed people off is advance a novel legal theory that if they own a physical book and they scan it they can unilaterally decide to make it available for borrowing under terms they set, without asking permission or paying more money to the author

      2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @soc_lee and

      What they've done RECENTLY that's pissed people off MORE is to unilaterally relax their lending restrictions (allow infinite copies of a file to be borrowed at once) because of the virus, again without asking or paying anybody

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
    8. Nathaniel Downes‏ @downix 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @soc_lee @neilhimself

      No arguments here. And if this is what was being argued, I would be right here with everyone. But that is not the position. The position is that IA has no right to issue any copies, at any time, even when they have a full license for doing so as a vendor for a partner library.

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @downix @soc_lee @neilhimself

      No, it isn't, this position is entirely based on the unilateral nature of the CDL policy, and is entirely coming from authors who found their work on the Open Library knowing they'd never negotiated a license for it to be there

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @downix and

      The whole argument for the necessity of CDL is orphaned works, that there are books that could never be scanned and digitally archived if you had to get a license first because the author can't be found But genuinely orphaned works are a small minority of what they have scanned

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @downix and

      The fact that they accept scans of books that came out within the past couple years and are still on their first print run and on bookstore shelves indicates the "orphaned works" argument is just a figleaf, they have no actual intention of limiting their policy to them at all

      3:51 PM - 30 Mar 2020
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        2. Nathaniel Downes‏ @downix 30 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @soc_lee @neilhimself

          Let's go with that argument a moment. You may be right, but the same could have been said of YouTube during its early days. What would be your recommendation? Btw, thank you for taking the time to discuss

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 30 Mar 2020
          Replying to @downix @soc_lee @neilhimself

          Google's lawyers argued in 2006 that YouTube had "No value proposition other than copyright infringement" and that by buying YouTube Google was throwing open the doors to widespread normalization of piracy and massive liability concerns They were obviously right

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
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