• ricdeh@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s not allowed with books

    Have you ever heard of the mysterious places called “libraries”? IA does not “republish” anything, it is an archive.

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      Technically, each time that it is viewed it is a republication from copyright perspective. It’s a digital copy that is redistributed; the original copy that was made doesn’t go away when someone views it. There’s not just one copy that people pass around like a library book.