In a letter dated Wednesday (April 8), US Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) writes to the chief of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive, “I am deeply concerned that your ‘Library’ is operating outside the boundaries of the copyright law that Congress has enacted and alone has jurisdiction to amend.”
And with that, the nonprofit repository’s founding “digital librarian,” Brewster Kahle, now has attracted what can be read as a warning shot across the Archive’s pillared porch on Funston Avenue from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. “I am not aware,” writes Sen. Tillis, “of any measure under copyright law that permits a user of copyrighted works to unilaterally create an emergency copyright act.”
Long before we looked at the “controlled digital lending” legal theory debate in a January 2019 article and a February 2019 piece here at Publishing Perspectives—when the United States’ Authors Guild and the United Kingdom’s Society of Authors had made simultaneous demands that the Internet Archive’s Open Library immediately stop lending scanned copies of physical books on their site—Kahle’s program’s practice of what the Guild called “unauthorized copying, distribution, and display of books” was being sharply criticized by many in the publishing industry. ... [mehr] https://publishingperspectives.com/2020/04/us-senate-subcommittee-chair-questions-internet-archives-national-emergency-library-covid19/
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