Ugh! I found someone had scanned and uploaded a copy of my book to the Internet Archive, without my permission. When wanting to find a review to recommend a book to someone, I found that copyrighted book there, so looked for mine. I still own my copyright. This interferes with me creating an author-preferred edition (instead of the publisher's vision) as planned.
In their terms of service, you will find:
While we collect publicly available Internet documents, sometimes authors and publishers express a desire for their documents not to be included in the Collections (by tagging a file for robot exclusion or by contacting us or the original crawler group). If the author or publisher of some part of the Archive does not want his or her work in our Collections, then we may remove that portion of the Collections without notice.
You can only contact the Internet Archive through email as their telephone number is voicemail. AFAIK their website doesn't list take down procedures.
I have emailed them a takedown demand, with their identifier for my novel, and left the same message on their voicemail.
Please boost so your circle of followers will see this, especially if they are authors.
PS: Yes, they consider themselves a library. I don't mind if they loan an original paperback from Del Rey in paper form. I don't give them permission to scan and then display, or display someone else's scan of my book.
I kinda wish the #InternetArchive had a filter for "the digital scan still has the original cover".
Because many of these 19th century books had amazing cover illustrations, especially if they were from the #ArtNouveau era. But unfortunately, the binding of most of the books that were digitized was eventually replaced entirely, and the covers were lost to history.
To whoever is DDOSing Internet Archive: stop it right now so I can continue browsing for new books I've never heard of but need to add to my TBR :blobcatangery: :blobcatfluffangry:
Archived news articles about events from just a few years ago are no longer showing up on internet searches in China, cutting off access to the country's recent history from all but the most resourceful researchers..
Wieder einmal dem Text von #JorgeLuisBorges begegnet, in dem er auf wenigen Seiten das unendliche und geheimnisvolle Wesen seiner Weltbibliothek beschreibt: #DieBibliothekVonBabel (1941)
Der knapp zehnseitige Text ist etwas Besonderes. Er entzieht sich immer wieder dem vollständigen Verständnis durch seine Leser:innen, verliert dabei aber nichts von seiner Faszination.
Im #internetarchive ist der Text in deutscher Sprache frei verfügbar:
Any #paywall blockers keeping up with Bloomberg in this arms race? Paywalled and #Bloomberg uses countermeasures to prevent the #InternetArchive from archiving the news for historians and posterity.
I've soured on (probable) Russian oligarch funded Archive(.)today
Lese heute #Annäherungen. Drogen und Rausch von #ErnstJünger (1970) im #InternetArchive. Mich interessiert die von Ihm propagierte Abenteuerreise, welche "die Gehege der Zeit und des Raumes und damit des Möglichen ein wenig erweitert." Denn: es ist das Raum und Zeit - Problem, an dem ich zur Zeit in meinem Roman knabbere.
P.S.: Bitte keine selbstgerechten und im schlechtesten Sinn woke Bemerkungen zur Wahl dieser Lektüre.
Internet Archive Files Final Brief in Publishers Lawsuit
“Resolving this should be easy—just sell ebooks to libraries so we can own, preserve and lend them to one person at a time. This is a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.”
The A-Team from the 1980s is my favorite TV show, and they had these big hardcover 'Annual' books they'd put out for it. I just discovered the one from 1984 is at the Internet Archive, and if you log in, you can 'borrow' it for an hour (and every hour it resets) and flip through all the scanned pages. It's totally wild.
Während ich Kafka in meiner Gymnasiumszeit (freiwillig) rauf und runtergelesen habe, ist mir das Ouvre von Milena gänzlich unbekannt. Der Film hat mich neugierig auf sie gemacht. Im #InternetArchive gibt es viel von ihr (kostenfrei) zu lesen. Also, sofort auf die Leseliste!
"The Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba) is the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, and is the result of the cooperation of Aruba's documentary heritage institutions".
“In a dream world, every national library would have enough funds to bring on an amazing team of people. Governments often don't have that” says professor Ian Milligan, who is writing a book on the #InternetArchive’s origins.
The Internet Archive has not previously acted as custodian of a country’s whole collection, although it has worked with a number of national and regional #libraries around the world." #digitalmemory https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/
#Apple and #Google are still busily at work figuring out how to "DRM the Web".
Google's trial balloon was in part to fool us into thinking we'd won and they stopped. No. They're just going to find a way to do it that maybe we won't notice or fight against as hard.
Mainstream news media sites are getting better at thwarting the #InternetArchive and its #WaybackMachine. I would like to know how the browser vendors are assisting the media with these countermeasures because I'm certain they are.
«As for your saving copies of files– yes, please do, but do so respectfully of our servers, services, uploaders, and other patrons. Trying to blow protections we have put on files, for instance, does not help us– and usually hurts.»
It's still in the process of processing, but I've uploaded the master PDF for my 2005 Transformers Bootleg fanzine to the Internet Archive! Come relive the golden age of Transformers fanzines except a decade later because I was feeling nostalgic!