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Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (theconversation.com)

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The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

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[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if you would feel that way if you were one of the artists whose copyrighted media was distributed illegally?

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The problem is that copyright last way to fucking long and they keep extending it. It should be the same as patents... 15 years I think. I'm just going to keep xdcc get whatever I want until they fix it.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago

I agree, but the internet archive doesn't have the authority to roll the duration back right? So it was illegal. We all agree the law needs to change, but it is still the law currently.