another tldr: Internet Archive thought scanning a copyrighted book was good enough to meet the transformative requirement for Fair Use and thus they could lend out digital copies at will
edit: Throw back to 4 days ago Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”
b-b-but there were no damages
… It is also irrelevant to assessing market harm ...
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Tbh copyright should expire after 20 years like patents
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Disagree.
Establishing/fleshing out an IP takes years. Easily 10+, in some cases even more. Considering that it's just a hobby for many people.
And then - just as you hit it big - a company like Disney swoops in and makes a movie out of your story?
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Compromise: If a large corporation wants to use the IP after copyright has expired, they have to publicly shoot their CEO in the head. It must also be livestreamed at their expense.
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Ok and? It’s not like randos making Iron Man comics are going to sell anyway. People are going to buy it from the source. Copyright only exists to protect companies that are way past innovation and exist via monopolized IP inertia.
Besides the entire MCU isn’t even 15 years old. The set up doesn’t take that long.
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But there should always be fair use exceptions and this lawsuit against the IA sets a dangerous precedence when ruled against them. Whatever, they're appealing it, lets see how far it goes.
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nah what they did was blatantly illegal they had regards for lawyers
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Explain more how it was "illegal". I don't want to see them go down because of this ruling.
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they were literally scanning books and letting people download the scans.
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This apparently might have some legal legs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22732991
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that's not legal either, it's a company renting out of production shit that nobody cares to enforce
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And?
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Frick ur IP cute twink, im living that FOSS pirate life
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