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Originally Posted by koland

Actually, I can't find any evidence that monoskop.org has permission to disseminate that or any other of the files they host. It appears from the Help page that anyone can create an account and upload files there. This particular one is still in print, definitely not out of copyright, with The New Press listed as the publisher for the paper edition.

I found this:

Monoskop.org, a project founded by media artist Dušan Barok, is a wiki for collaborative studies of art, media and the humanities that was born in 2004 out of Barok’s study of media art and related cultural practices. Its significant holdings - about 3,000 full-length texts and many more excerpts, links and citations - include avant-garde and modernist magazines, writings on sound art, scanned illustrations, and media theory texts.

As a wiki, any user can edit any article or upload content, and see their changes reflected immediately. Monoskop is comprised of two sister sites: the Monoskop wiki and Monoskop Log, the accompanying text repository. Monoskop Log is structured as a Wordpress site with links hosted on third-party sites, much like the rare-music download blogs that became popular in the mid-2000s. Though this architecture is relatively unstable, links are fixed on-demand and site mirroring and redundancy balance out some of the instability.

Monoskop makes clear that it is offering content under the fair-use doctrine and that this content is for personal and scholarly use, not commercial use. Barok notes that though there have been a small number of takedowns, people generally appreciate unrestricted access to the types of materials in Monoskop log, whether they are authors or publishers.

Located at:

http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue61/pirate-libraries