From the post: “format-change from print library copies to digital library copies was transformative under fair use factor one” & therefore constituted fair use. It also ruled that using those digitized copies to train an AI model was a transformative use, again qualifying as fair use under US law.

There’s a discounted pass for just the exhibit hall.

Absolutely. It’s CC0 - use it however you can/want. Please!

It was me! 🐍📚 Illustrator is Freya Morgan. There’s a good PNG suitable for printing on the Internet Archive. I usually have a stack of stickers on me at conferences. archive.org/details/dont...

You know that thing where you talk about the thing without talking about the thing? Maybe there's more here than emojis...

Librarian here. Libraries, especially research libraries, buy books on the second hand market every day for the scenario you highlighted. I used to work at a large academic library and we actively bought used books for titles that were out of print so that our collection would be comprehensive.

Hi - I’m a librarian at the Internet Archive. Our patron services team can help you at [email protected]. I’d welcome a chance to chat as well, will DM.

Hi - librarian at the Internet Archive here. The post explains & shows how we have a physical book for each of the books in our lending collection. They are lent to one user at a time.

👋 I’m a librarian at Internet Archive. Can I help?

Heya - I’m a librarian at @archive.org. Chuck’s not involved in the lawsuit against our library & has spoken out against it: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/authors-for-libraries

Be mad at the publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House & Wiley.