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Originally Posted by Quoth
DRM needs to be abolished and be illegal.
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This idea has greater risk of impoverishing major publisher authors, now earning enough to quit their day job, than the Open Library's uncorrected scans.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
This is a deliberate and long planned attack on copyright existing at all.
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I would guess it was planned for a couple days, with much of the time spent on the phone with lawyers.
That's my guess.
How long do you believe it was planned, and do you have any more evidence than I do?
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
It is clear that there is no legal justification for what they are doing.
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In international law, I think you are likely correct. But, then, U.S. law clearly violates the Berne Convention due to going by years since publication instead of Life +.
If this is clearly in violation of U.S. case law (what determines, and not always the same as literal law), they will be successfully sued. Problem solved.
Only thing is -- there is a legal justification. I linked to part of it on their web site. You just don't agree with it. We have no knowledge what U.S. courts would say.
If they aren't sued, it will be because the publishers and authors fear losing.
The 650 million idle library books while kids are out of school theme may have jury appeal. If the members of the jury could find any possible way to interpret the judge's instructions as allowing for an all-libraries-closed exception, I think they would grab it.