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lilabailey.bsky.social
Public interest copyright laywer, karaoke diva, book reader, dog mom. Here for libraries, museums, books, music, art, comedy, copyright, memes, animals, fandoms, and people being kind. I work at the Internet Archive, but posts here are my own.
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My new health insurance policy just arrived in the mail.

Is the costume just... a childhood photo of @gshans.bsky.social ?

Y'all Chuck is up in here

The Internet Archive @archive.org is hiring some lawyers. Please share widely amongst your peeps. Policy Counsel: app.trinethire.com/companies/32... Collections and Services Counsel: app.trinethire.com/companies/32...

Has anyone created a library copyright starter pack on Bluesky yet? I want to go to there please and thank you.

Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...

I wish more prominent authors would say this to their publishers, and those who lobby on their behalf like the Authors Guild and the AAP. Libraries are great for Authors and readers.

I wondered if the Cats Laughing cover of Gloomy Sunday was out there in the world, and it's on the Internet Archive. No need to thank me. archive.org/details/Cats...

How does fair use help libraries? Internet Archive's senior policy counsel, Lila Bailey, outlines how the fair use doctrine has helped us build our library, including web archives with The Wayback Machine & a growing collection of manuals: blog.archive.org/2024/03/01/f...

Your library doesn't own these ebooks, they are just paying more money to a corporate vendor for you to access copies faster. Nothing is added to library shelves. We need #digitalownership not more false scarcity.

This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/

Any and all continuations and adaptations of Locked Tomb should be injected 💉 straight into my veins thankssssss