Hachette v. Internet Archive
www.eff.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co-counsel Durie Tangri, is defending the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program.The Internet
  • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    oh fuck off, suing the internet archive is like attacking mr. rogers, it's tacky and everyone is going to hate you

  • MsUltraViolet [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    You can partially thank hack writer of star wars/YA books (that are more like commercials for IP than actual novels) Chuck Wingdings for this. His whinging and crying about "authors being unfairly stolen from" is partially what caused this case to start.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Man, I know it's fan fiction written for children, but having seen his Twitter account I'm still amazed that a man-child who could barely construct a sentence is a published writer.