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stbalbach |
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June 20, 2011 09:16:03am |
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Re: Copyright lunacy |
The Archive is a Non-Profit, the cost of scanning books is borne by people who donate money, like PBS. The Archive's rules, and I agree, say the library should not be used a resource for people to profit from, because it will then discourage donor's who will feel they are being used/cheated (ie. donating money so that others can profit). In particular these spammer scammers who are reprinting books by the thousands as Kindle editions without cleaning up the OCR. The whole thing could be a threat to the Archive's funding if/when it becomes better known who is providing the raw material for Amazon's spammers.
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