In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library. This case isn’t just about books; it’s also about who controls the digital commons.
A staff member wears a “Universal Access to All Knowledge” shirt during a twentieth-anniversary celebration of the Internet Archive in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, October 26, 2016. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals against the Internet Archive (IA). The court sided with big-name…
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