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Originally Posted by GeoffR
I don't know how many, far too many for me to count.
In this 2013 Teleread article a figure was given of 250,000 ebooks in archive.org's modern ebooks collection with only about 100 that had the publisher's permission to be there. So that is 99.96% without permission. The numbers have grown a lot since then.
The Internet Archive’s Open Library is violating authors’ copyrights |
It was more or less ignored for years but not anymore.
https://teleread.org/2017/12/19/the-...s-guild-warns/
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/...ecides-piracy/
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/...works-defense/
https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2018/...gement-by.html
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/...-dmca-notices/
It's been in the news repeatedly this year:
https://publishingperspectives.com/2...ty-of-authors/
https://the-digital-reader.com/2019/...-open-library/
They are claiming that owning a print copy allows them to lend out a digital copy, one at a time, and daring anybody to sue.
https://controlleddigitallending.org/statement
Somebody will.
And soon.