Brewster Kahle
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This morning, we were disappointed to read that four commercial publishers are suing the Internet Archive.As a library, the Internet Archive acquires books and lends them, as libraries have always done. This supports publishing, authors and readers. Publishers suing libraries for lending books, in this case protected digitized versions, and while schools and libraries are closed, is not in anyone’s interest. We hope this can be resolved quickly.Lawfare is being waged on many digital platforms..Get your seat belt on Brewster, we have a lot of turbulence to go thru before we land.Thanks...…This morning, we were disappointed to read that four commercial publishers are suing the Internet Archive.As a library, the Internet Archive acquires books and lends them, as libraries have always done. This supports publishing, authors and readers. Publishers suing libraries for lending books, in this case protected digitized versions, and while schools and libraries are closed, is not in anyone’s interest. We hope this can be resolved quickly.Lawfare is being waged on many digital platforms..Get your seat belt on Brewster, we have a lot of turbulence to go thru before we land.Thanks...WW…