I really don’t understand how this would work. They can’t do the normal legal nonsense of claiming they are only selling me a license to the book, if they sell a physical copy of the book to me. After they sell me a physical book they cannot prevent me from lending or reselling it.
If authors/publishers could find some way to legally do this they would, I just don’t think they can.
I understand why a library can’t make copies of a book (as far as I understood it the internet archive was “limiting” access to how many copies of a book can be viewed at a time) the copyright protections are clear. But copyright does not cover resale or lending.
Oh then I misunderstood you. Yes, if an author self publishes and sells copies. Their control over said copy largely ends when it leaves their possession. In fact they only maintain one right to it after that point. The copy right. Which unfortunately IA is a bit fast and loose with.
I’m not opposed to “the right to be forgotten” but imo that should apply to private speech, not something posted publicly. If you publish something on the open internet I feel like you’ve given up that right (like an author deciding to give copies of a book to friends vs an author selling a book in stores)
I really don’t understand how this would work. They can’t do the normal legal nonsense of claiming they are only selling me a license to the book, if they sell a physical copy of the book to me. After they sell me a physical book they cannot prevent me from lending or reselling it.
If authors/publishers could find some way to legally do this they would, I just don’t think they can.
I understand why a library can’t make copies of a book (as far as I understood it the internet archive was “limiting” access to how many copies of a book can be viewed at a time) the copyright protections are clear. But copyright does not cover resale or lending.
Oh then I misunderstood you. Yes, if an author self publishes and sells copies. Their control over said copy largely ends when it leaves their possession. In fact they only maintain one right to it after that point. The copy right. Which unfortunately IA is a bit fast and loose with.
I’m not opposed to “the right to be forgotten” but imo that should apply to private speech, not something posted publicly. If you publish something on the open internet I feel like you’ve given up that right (like an author deciding to give copies of a book to friends vs an author selling a book in stores)