Comments on: Fighting to protect copyright 'orphans'

Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle is attempting to gain public domain status for out-of-print books despite court setbacks.

[amadensor]

The intent of copyright

The original intent was to promote literary and artistic works by allowing the original authors an publishers to make a profit from them. This is good, but there is no profit to be made from out of print books. I do not see where distributing out of print works violates the spirit of the law.

Perhaps a system could be put in place where if a work is very popular, it could be put back in print, and removed, temporarily, from the online archive. This would not only help the archivers by opening up out of print books, but also publishers by letting them know what should be back in print.

[Too Old For IT]

The problem with archiving in-print works

... is that it will bring an end to writing and publishing.

Why bother if Khale and others are just going to distribute a year's worth of an author's work for free? Tho to be fair, Richard Stallman has been driving for this to happen to print authors for years.

I fail to see what these two and others have against writers that they want to steal their work.

[amadensor]

The intent of copyright

The original intent was to promote literary and artistic works by allowing the original authors an publishers to make a profit from them. This is good, but there is no profit to be made from out of print books. I do not see where distributing out of print works violates the spirit of the law.

Perhaps a system could be put in place where if a work is very popular, it could be put back in print, and removed, temporarily, from the online archive. This would not only help the archivers by opening up out of print books, but also publishers by letting them know what should be back in print.

[Too Old For IT]

The problem with archiving in-print works

... is that it will bring an end to writing and publishing.

Why bother if Khale and others are just going to distribute a year's worth of an author's work for free? Tho to be fair, Richard Stallman has been driving for this to happen to print authors for years.

I fail to see what these two and others have against writers that they want to steal their work.

[danxy]

Traditional Libraries are the enemy

I scan a lot of public domain books and I'll tell you, an unexpected blockade was not publishers--it was libraries. Not books in open stacks, but books in "archives" or "special collections". Here I am scanning and preserving books forever in digital form and the librarians don't allow any copying. It doesn't matter if the book is public domain and not in fragile condition. They like their "inward retentiveness" I guess. What good are books that are locked up that nobody can see.

My book archive, by the way, is on Yosemite at
yosemite.ca.us/library

[Golem_one]

They're the predecessors of the I.T. department

Librarians are like the technicians in corporate and institutional I.T.
departments. Now we have the worst situation - Librarians and the
I.T. departments working together.

[danxy]

Traditional Libraries are the enemy

I scan a lot of public domain books and I'll tell you, an unexpected blockade was not publishers--it was libraries. Not books in open stacks, but books in "archives" or "special collections". Here I am scanning and preserving books forever in digital form and the librarians don't allow any copying. It doesn't matter if the book is public domain and not in fragile condition. They like their "inward retentiveness" I guess. What good are books that are locked up that nobody can see.

My book archive, by the way, is on Yosemite at
yosemite.ca.us/library

[Golem_one]

They're the predecessors of the I.T. department

Librarians are like the technicians in corporate and institutional I.T.
departments. Now we have the worst situation - Librarians and the
I.T. departments working together.