• Jeena
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    11110 days ago

    “Library of Alexandria had to be set on fire after publishers’ court win”

    • Flying Squid
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      2110 days ago

      The good news is, as far as I know, they don’t have to actually delete the data.

      So at least these books have still been digitized if something changes and they are allowed to be accessed in the future. Some of them may not exist in physical form at this point, or only as one or two copies in an academic library.

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      1210 days ago

      That is not what has happened here.

      “The library of Alexandria has had to remove some books from public lending due to court order”

      The IA played a very risky game during covid, lost, and now needs to face concequences.

      It could be soo much worse.