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Re: Fw: Archive.org to declare bankruptcy?

B. J. Watkins
 

The Internet Archive has ended its National Emergency Library programs two weeks earlier than originally scheduled, the organization announced in a Wednesday blog post. "We moved up our schedule ...
arstechnica.com


From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io <main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io> on behalf of Jim Wood <Jim@...>
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Thank you Chris, that article really sheds some light on it and I see where this could end up.

 

Jim

 

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The word “ bankruptcy” is prominent in this article, but it appears the publishers are using the idea of it as a club.

 

https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archive-lawsuit-threatens 



On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 2:56 PM, Jim Wood <Jim@...> wrote:

Right, I found that, but that is a copyright issue between about lending books, nothing about putting them out of business or bankruptcy or the internet archives storing of stuff similar to ours. My concern here is “the sky is falling” kind of thing, we all need to report things correctly and keep it in perspective.

 

Jim

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io <main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io> On Behalf Of Patrick Andre
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I believe the whole thing revolves around the complaint by four book publishers.

http://blog.archive.org/2020/06/01/four-commercial-publishers-filed-a-complaint-about-the-internet-archives-lending-of-digitized-books/

 

~Patrick

 

From: main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io <main@OldTimeRadioResearchers.groups.io> On Behalf Of Jim Wood via groups.io
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There is nothing there about the internet archive, let alone it’s bankruptcy…

 

 

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