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The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Hot take: We need a middle ground between free unfettered access to journalism and total pay wall restrictions. Physical libraries do this well. Digital content is a lot more complicated. Maybe Internet Archive should only be able to publish content that’s over X years old? Thoughts?
The "middle ground" is for publishers to back the fuck off and let libraries do their goddamn jobs.
Why is that position in the middle? Because the extreme position is that the publishers have broken the social contract -- which was for Congress to grant them the privilege of a temporary monopoly in exchange for enriching the Public Domain in the long run -- and thus no longer deserve to have copyrights at all.
Digital is a completely different paradigm. If an online library has unlimited copies of a book, why would anyone buy it? New books won’t be written is no one pays for them.