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Copyright and patent laws need to die.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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They don’t need to die, they need to go back to what they used to be. The first copyright law was called the Statute of Anne and it covered a work for 14 years.
That’s a totally reasonable amount of time for an author/publisher to make their money. And it’s reasonable for creators to want to get paid for their work.
And then it should be public domain.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
In case you wanted to know what was lost.
I'm kind of amazed that only that and the 78's archive was lost. At least there's Project Gutenberg et al to help with the books, and meanwhile the IA does still archive a vast load of video material, software, and no doubt, other stuff.
I did, thanks.
How many of them are not backed up somewhere else?
Most of them are still "on" the Internet Archive.
Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo's lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.
Except that's all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that's missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the "removed" games.
What criteria decided those books? It must be a relatively small number of all books