Notices by Brewster Kahle (brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org), page 3

"Nigeria: the best copyright law in the world?

EIFL’s analysis of Nigeria’s new copyright law shows it to be one of the best in the world with respect to libraries
"

https://www.eifl.net/blogs/nigeria-best-copyright-law-world

I like the sound of this.

Copyright laws that are balanced-- wouldn't that be nice? Licensing on top of copyright is insane.

Cartoon: Shocking Truth about Whats Happening in Public Libraries

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2023/oct/14/tom-gauld-on-the-shocking-truth-about-whats-happening-in-public-libraries-cartoon#img-1

❤️❤️. . an appreciation post for the @internetarchive
and @ArxivIR

"In appreciation of the 'ridiculous and unworkable' projects that make the Internet great and research possible"

https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2023/10/2023-1

"Some of the Most Interesting and Weird Manuals in the Internet Archive" by Jason Kottke

❤️

https://kottke.org/23/10/interesting-manuals-internet-archive

Brewster goes to Washington (congressional hearing on the Copyright Office Modernization Committee)

"The key thing I would suggest is the role the Library of Congress plays of preservation and access.

I mean, fundamentally, it's the Library for Congress, and they're building this collection of mandatory deposits as well as copyright registrations and everything that goes into their collections to try to preserve and create a better democracy."

https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/28/brewster-goes-to-washington-sep-26-2023/

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Interlibrary loan from the Internet Archive and back from 318 different libraries.

Go @internetarchive and go #ILL

“The permanence of library collections may become a thing of the past,” said Jason Schultz, director of New York University’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic.

“I wish the publishers had not sued, but it demonstrates how important it is that libraries stand firm on buying, preserving and lending the treasures that are books.” -me, Digital Librarian

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html

A 78rpm record every hour from the Great78Project-- really a threat? https://mastodon.archive.org/@great78

Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006.

Who benefits?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

"First, the Big 5 do not SELL ebooks to libraries. Not one.

Libraries do not own title one from the Big 5. We license them. And that makes all the difference in the world for cost, depth and breadth of collection, and preservation. Nobody should ever use the word 'sell' in a sentence combining 'Big 5' and 'library ebooks.' This is not nit-picking. It is the essence of the problem."

And they are suing to stop Controlled Digital Lending of the books we did buy.

https://www.readersfirst.org/news/2023/8/2/big-5-license-terms-as-of-july-2023

"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.

a cogent plea for keeping physical libraries available:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/death-of-the-physical-library/

Daniel Ellsberg helping celebrate the Internet Archive in 2013 and our support for Reader Privacy. A career highlight for me.

https://archive.org/details/internetarchivecelebration20131024/internetarchivecelebration20131024.m4v?start=287

also:
https://archive.org/details/danielellsberginterview

@internetarchive

"Our Digital History Is at Risk" by me in Time Magazine

Free societies need access to history, unaltered by changing corporate or political interests.

This is the role that libraries have played and need to keep playing.

http://blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our-digital-history-is-at-risk/

@forteller @internetarchive

We bought the building because it matched our logo, which we had for 15 years. so good!

Trans culture in 1927 super short-film on subject: well worth 3minutes.
(Honorable mention in @internetarchive public domain day contest):

https://archive.org/details/1927-the-drag-and-the-padlock

Other winners of the "Brewsters":

http://blog.archive.org/2023/01/21/public-domain-day-film-contest-highlights-works-of-1927/

Come celebrate Public Domain Day (1927!) with us tonight. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-party-in-san-francisco-tickets-477675589547

"Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug" go EFF!

"In Hachette v. Internet Archive, four of the biggest publishers in the world, are trying to shut down Controlled Digital Lending, which allows people to check out digital copies of books for two weeks or less...

Supported by authors, libraries, and scholars, the Internet Archive has explained that CDL is a lawful fair use that serves copyright’s ultimate purpose: enriching our common culture."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fair-use-creep-feature-not-bug

@internetarchive wobbly for now--

Power went out for 4 minutes (5:37-5:41am PT) in one datacenter, and it will take us a while to recover.

Sorry.

@internetarchive

@internetarchive

Im going to the #publicDomain in-person party on Jan 20th in SF.

I am jazzed to celebrate the good things that are happening, like the freeing of 1927, including songs like "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "You Scream, I Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream"