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Originally Posted by Pablo
My question is this: this issue of Galaxy Science Fiction seems to be out of copyright, at least somewhere, otherwise, it wouldn't be hosted in the Internet Archive, right?
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Wrong, I'm afraid. Lots of material that Internet Archive loans is copyrighted in every nation.
See:
The Internet Archive’s Open Library is violating authors’ copyrights
So why doesn't Internet Archive get the Kim Dotcom treatment?
Here are some guesses:
-- So few people are satisfied reading uncorrected scans, with a two week DRM-enforced borrowing limit, that it doesn't seem economically worth it to sue for such a violation
-- Maybe they promptly obey takedown notices, and then never re-post that book or magazine
-- They have powerful friends. (Librarians are powerful? Well, I said these are guesses.)
For what I mean by friends, see:
https://openlibrary.org/libraries
P.S. Another possibility is that what Open Library is doing -- lending out one copy at a time of a scanned paper book that was purchased -- would be ruled legal by appellate courts. Now, my guess is that it would be ruled
illegal by appellate courts. But if I was a prosecutor, with limited resources, I would not go after a lawbreaker if there seemed even a small chance that what we would be changing him or her with is actually legal.