Okay, so you agree with the Authors Guild that the Internet Archive should take down all their CDL content immediately (the "extreme" position) and only put up ebooks under a "traditional" license
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The idea that the Authors Guild wants the entire Internet Archive destroyed, or has any power to do so (as though the IA is the scrappy underdog in this situation), is part of the disingenuous apologetics here
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I am not worried about the IA itself. My concern is in how such a blanket statement as given by the AG can and will be applied elsewhere.
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But the AG does not say that. I am going by what the AG is saying, which is a blanket statement which, if is accepted, would hurt many groups far beyond IA, namely libraries. Which is my original point.
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They're saying the IA has no rights to the books that the IA does not, in fact, have rights to, not that it's IMPOSSIBLE to GET rights to the books by having the author agree to it
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