Big Media’s lobbyists have been running a smear campaign trying to paint the Internet Archive as a greedy big tech operation bent on stealing books—which is totally absurd. If you’ve ever used the WayBack Machine, listened to their wonderful archives of live music, or checked out one of their 37 million texts, it’s time to speak up. On March 20, everyone is showing their support for the Internet Archive during oral arguments.
Here's how you can help:
The Internet Archive is our library, a massive collection of knowledge and culture accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Don't let greedy publishers burn down the next Library of Alexandria!
And if you're absolutely certain you don't use or need the Internet Archive, take a look at their projects first, you might be surprised. Those are all at risk too.
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Please spread this wherever you can. The Internet Archive is battling for the rights of libraries.
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Drink coffee. Support the Internet Archive.
(NO - SERIOUSLY. We wouldn’t have those weird pics of retro food or kitschy vintage cakes respectively from the cookbooks and Wilton Yearbooks of yore. Support me either by signing the petition or buying my products on Zazzle. A portion of royalties earned will go to the IA.)
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SO the poll for the final design for patron librarian adam has ended like yesterday?? or smth and the second version won sooo guess what im doing. (this is a wip)
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When is a library not a library? When it’s online, apparently
"If you buy a physical book, you are allowed to sell or lend it because of a legal principle known as the “first sale doctrine,” which gives the owner of a (physical) object the right to dispose of that object in whatever way they wish, regardless of copyright. The Archive argued that the same principle should protect the sale or lending of a legally purchased digital copy, pointing out that all the copies of books it lent out had previously been acquired lawfully by libraries.'...
The Internet Archive’s lawyers also pointed to a Supreme Court decision, from the nineteen eighties, ruling that using a Sony Betamax video-cassette recorder to make a copy of a TV show was fair use. The Archive argued that its digital copies of print books similarly “improved the efficiency of delivering content to one entitled to receive the content” in a way that didn’t “unreasonably encroach on the commercial entitlements of the rights holder.” "
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Since I found out steam does a year in review (I had no idea until this year) I have decided that I must play video games more and play every game in my steam library so that my year in review is 100% accurate next year and I don't get told that my top 2 games were Disco Elysium and Baldur's Gate 3 because I would Hyperfixate on one game for a whole month (or three) and play nothing else, and still have my genre graph have nothing to do with those two top games and instead have "cats" as a genre while calling me a fag
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Sometimes I wonder if there is something wrong with my brain because I cannot wrap my head around like math and science things. I am taking a class on digital curation and my brain just kind of looks at the words about coding and the articles we read and im just like uuhhhhhh
what dis?
How dis work?
What are these words?
I dont know if I just have issues concentrating or processing things like that or what
when it comes to history and arts im fine but when its like that type of science and especially math my brain is just
white noise @.@
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I need a library to hire me so badly 😭 I need to do the work I did at our small town library but get paid for it PLEASE
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Testimony from Aurelia S. Browder et al. v. W. A. Gayle, et al., No 1147, District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division, May 11, 1956 (pdf here) [Civil Case Files, 1938-1995, Records of the District Courts of the United States, Civil Rights Digital Library, Digital Library of Georgia, GALILEO, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA]
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Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books can be read online. And it holds back access to information in the digital age, harming all readers, everywhere.
But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers.
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Okay so my grandmother who raised me recently passed and ive been working myself sick to afford the trip to her funeral. Unfortunately tho the man who we are renting a room from just raised rent a shitton. Now i cant afford rent OR to see my grandmother off. Please i know ive posted a lot of these asking for help but i will never be able to live with myself if i cant say my goodbyes to her. If u can spare even a dollar or two ill make a little chibi doodle or something or pls share this around.
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2 and 10. Also how are you today? Doing well?
2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)
Go through any of my art and you will definitely see a pattern. I usually always draw ponies facing somewhere to the left. NEVER right (That only happens if I draw it left, then flip the canvas). There's no difficulty difference between full left facing and 3/4 left facing, as long as it's left facing. Drawing ponies facing forward has been fairly difficult over the years, but it's getting easier now.
10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw
I don't really, draw clothing?? In fact, I kind of hate drawing clothes (especially since I learned how to draw through drawing ponies, so I don't have much experience with it). I guess I used to like drawing handkerchiefs on ponies necks though, but not as much anymore. Sweaters can be fun occasionally.
Also I'm doing well thank you for asking!! I'm about to start crunching out homework (mainly art related work).
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Please please please show your support for the Internet Archive by signing this petition! Support them in any way you can and spread the word. If we do not fight this, millions of sources of knowledge, culture, art, and history will be lost because of the corporate greed of a few publishing companies! Our local libraries will be next. This is an assault on access to knowledge and knowledge itself, and we cannot let it stand!
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