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diff --git a/microposts/ia-lawsuit.org b/microposts/ia-lawsuit.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5952e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/microposts/ia-lawsuit.org @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +#+title: ia-lawsuit + +#+date: <2020-08-02> + +The four big publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin +Random House are still pursuing Internet Archive. + +#+begin_quote + [Their] lawsuit does not stop at seeking to end the practice of + Controlled Digital Lending. These publishers call for the destruction + of the 1.5 million digital books that Internet Archive makes available + to our patrons. This form of digital book burning is unprecedented and + unfairly disadvantages people with print disabilities. For the blind, + ebooks are a lifeline, yet less than one in ten exists in accessible + formats. Since 2010, Internet Archive has made our lending library + available to the blind and print disabled community, in addition to + sighted users. If the publishers are successful with their lawsuit, + more than a million of those books would be deleted from the + Internet's digital shelves forever. +#+end_quote + +[[https://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/][Libraries +lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds +to publishers' lawsuit]] |