Eric Platon
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So the Internet Archive lost in appeal against Hachette, Penguin, HarperCollins, and Wiley. Judgment looks fair by the current laws, but here the law seems to cause harm. https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive
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Eric Platon
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IA may have been one step too far? But so many game changers and superstar CEOs do all the time with all kinds of side effects.
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Eric Platon
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Aside the fact confirmed by external reviewers that "The Internet Archive's digital lending had no measurable effect on the market whatsoever", Lessig's point is subtle and solid: "We need access to our past, not just the part of our past that is economically or commercially viable." Focusing only on the hot FOMO stuff is very Sisyphean lifestyle---going nowhere.
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Eric Platon
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Settlement numbers are not disclosed. Given externals say the 2-month problem had little commercial impact, I wonder who wins here? According to the Association of American Publishers president and CEO Pallante, "infringement is both costly and antithetical to the public interest". This sounds very wrong: The interests served here are clearly the publishers' and most likely the best-selling authors. But again, no number to suggest so. Yet suing costs a lot (and part of the GDP in the US, haha). And yet the Wired article mentions IA may face a $400M case on music. It looks like "worth it for publishers" to sue, including signalling.
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