Library trolls copyright zealots by naming collection after Sonny Bono | Ars Technica

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-10-11

Summary:

"The Internet Archive is an online library known for pushing the boundaries of copyright law to promote public access to obscure works, including classic video games and historic images. Now the organization is taking advantage of a little-noticed provision of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act to publish complete copies of out-of-print books published between 1923 and 1941. The group hopes that the move will inspire other libraries to follow its lead, making hundreds of thousands of books from the mid-20th Century available for download"

Link:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/internet-archive-puts-full-out-of-print-books-from-20s-and-30s-online/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.pd oa.usa oa.copyright oa.internet_archive

Date tagged:

10/11/2017, 23:53

Date published:

10/11/2017, 19:53