Post ATg0DiMPUGbSrA1gn3 by Seller11@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #ATfxPHurKh4kS9xzUG by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
       2023-03-16T14:22:31Z
       
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       One thing I don't quite understand about the suit is this: If I were to publish a book, and it were within copyright, and then someone donated a copy of my book to the Internet Archive (or the archive purchased it), could that copy then be checked out by many people at once? Or one at a time? Or it depends?/ Does this cut authors out of royalties in a new way, is part of my question ... #Books
       
 (DIR) Post #ATg0DiMPUGbSrA1gn3 by Seller11@mstdn.social
       2023-03-16T14:53:55Z
       
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       @elizamccarthy Do you support restrictions on the used (physical) book market because authors do no receive royalties on used books? Do you support the elimination of libraries?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATg2mtZlyoHNgVBDHM by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
       2023-03-16T15:22:45Z
       
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       @Seller11 I understand a library to be a place where 1 person checks out 1 copy of a book (or copies of books). Then that particular copy is "spoken for" till it is returned. I am trying to understand whether the Internet Archive would be a library in that sense. One copy of one book at one time to one person.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATg2ra4dupHkeDqxeq by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
       2023-03-16T15:23:39Z
       
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       @Seller11 To your questions, I do support libraries, and the physical used-book market is one I utilize frequently. Especially once I learned that we consumers don't "own" our ebooks, just like libraries don't exactly. I don't quite understand how royalties flow to authors & copyright holders from libraries vis-a-vis ebooks. I also don't understand how ebook royalties work in general.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATgF2sPLI2Dm91giHI by erikalyn@newsie.social
       2023-03-16T17:40:07Z
       
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       @elizamccarthy My understanding is that in theory, they are only loaning the digital bootleg to one person at a time. But a new digital copy has to be created and sent to every person who checks it out, and there's no way to actually "return" those copies, so people could hold onto them indefinitely. More in the FAQ here (scroll down to 25 and 26 in particular): https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/
       
 (DIR) Post #ATgS0a7Xbo60Fkb6fY by jcolag@mastodon.social
       2023-03-16T20:05:21Z
       
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       @elizamccarthy My understanding is that they only loan one copy at a time NOW; I've had to wait for books. The lawsuit comes from when they declared that the pandemic gave them the authority to remove any restrictions on borrowing.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATguAbdlbuuaZxEtgO by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
       2023-03-17T01:20:58Z
       
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       @jcolag thank you!
       
 (DIR) Post #AThh2LQCvHgPiNaSpc by elizamccarthy@mstdn.social
       2023-03-17T10:28:30Z
       
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       @erikalyn complicate issue, thank you for the insights and info