@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
You're talking about IA's response to Covid and national lock down when 90%+ of working age adults and school/ college aged children and young adults were all forced to work and study from home on a weekend's notice? When every Library in this Country shuttered as well?
You're talking about a novel and new idea from an organization who's mission to archive and preserve the Internet's knowledge.
You're talking about an organization that was sued by publishers, and where the publishers won.
And you're talking about an organization that complied with the Court's order and discontinued it's service.
You're also talking about an organization that, when it launched said "National Emergency Library", was not breaking any Copyright law.
It wasn't only until Publishers sued, and won, where a Court determined that the Internet Archive was not entitled to Fair Use for the National Emergency Library.
At least in the US, every one accused of a crime or violating a regulation is presumed innocent and is emphatically not guilty until either a Judge or a Jury convicts them.
So, to respond and answer your original question:
> What about the "National Emergency Library"?
What about it?
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https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/
> To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
