"The lawsuit wants to make it illegal to scan books AT ALL for ANY REASON" The complaint very obviously does not say that, it negatively contrasts what IA does with what Google Books and Hathi do in order to make its case
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But as a result I'm really, really certain that the Internet Archive obviously also has as its goal "changing the fundamental definition of owning a book" At least from what most ordinary people think it is, never mind tendentious arguments about the pre-copyrjght golden age
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*Everyone* wants to "change the definition of owning a book" because in the digital era that idea doesn't *have* a definition because everything about it fundamentally works differently That's the whole point
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i admit, i am leery of this whole clusterfuck-feeling thing for a variety of reasons, one of them being i am not keen on making writing even more of a resource hole for the writers, even further entrenching it into a craft only able to be seriously pursued by the wealthy.
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perhaps i worry too much or incorrectly, and god knows it's a problem with the current system as is. but i can see how the end/weakening of copyright without also strengthening other radical avenues of support can cause... an issue
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