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   Paul Chambers (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 16:20:17 JST Paul Chambers

   Public library ends Harry Potter-themed child literacy program after legal threat from Warner Brothers, the owner of copyright and other intellectual property rights related to the films featuring child wizard Harry Potter. The company sent a cease-and-desist letter to the library.

   In the past, libraries were encouraged to host themed events when new books came out, to promote the books to increase sales.

   https://tclib.org/2573/Harry-Potter-Programs

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   MMS (melmscow@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 14:34:39 JST MMS

   In rural Australia in the 1940s, my mother had rocks thrown at her and was branded a 'communist' because her father, a school headmaster, advocated for establishing a public library.

   In the Canadian province where I now reside, the Catholic Church controlled libraries -- and thus access to information -- until the 1960s.

   We forget how recent the democratisation of knowledge is -- how transformative such institutions were and how hard-won.

   We should not part with them easily.

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   Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 15:46:32 JST Tom Walker

   People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

   Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

   In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.