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Originally Posted by Quoth
Non-profit is irrelevant to contravening copyright.
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In the U.S. at least, I believe you are correct. But it does impact damages that could be collected, per
our federal law:
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The court shall remit statutory damages in any case where an infringer believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her use of the copyrighted work was a fair use under section 107, if the infringer was: (i) an employee or agent of a nonprofit educational institution, library, or archives . . .
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also the source of many books scanned and also some of their scans is opaque.
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They have library stamps visible in the PDF. Someone resident in that area could go to the library and confirm whether a copy of the book with the stamps in just the same spot are still in the lending collection. Why not try asking someone here, who lives nearby, to check, before insinuating nefarious conduct?
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
The entire enterprise was set for book pirates.
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The beginning of the books are messed up. You can't click in the table of contents to re-start a chapter. So book pirates would be much more likely to use the Overdrive copy than the Internet Archive copy. Also, at least in the past, and AFAIK now, they didn't have current books the pirates would presumably be more interested in.
I never would have bought a new book in lieu of borrowing the Internet Archive copy. I might have bought a used copy of that out of print title. This is not the piracy world.
The real damage to the big publisher is that if I wasn't reading some old out of print book, I might have instead used the time to read something they were currently selling. So -- same damage to living authors, and publishers, as when I read public domain. And the real damage to libraries, if the Internet Archive case is upheld on appeal, is that I might ask for more interlibrary loans of obscure old titles, costing my local library money for postage, and staff time.