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I hope you'll join me in supporting the National Emergency Library at the @InternetArchive (I just donated). Their expansion of access during the COVID-19 crisis is *exactly* the kind of experiment that needs doing right now.
https://archive.org/NEL
Some advocates of copyright restrictions are objecting to the National Emergency Library. They remind me a lot of those who objected to FDR's experimentation during the crisis of the Great Depression. I mean, if *now* is not the time for this experiment, when would be?
I wrote a piece about this for @QCO:
https://questioncopyright.org/support-the-national-emergency-library
TL;DR: When people are willing to give up *freedom of physical movement* and yet still think adjusting copyright restrictions -- even temporarily -- is out of bounds, then we have a collective failure of imagination.
https://archive.org/NEL
Some advocates of copyright restrictions are objecting to the National Emergency Library. They remind me a lot of those who objected to FDR's experimentation during the crisis of the Great Depression. I mean, if *now* is not the time for this experiment, when would be?
I wrote a piece about this for @QCO:
https://questioncopyright.org/support-the-national-emergency-library
TL;DR: When people are willing to give up *freedom of physical movement* and yet still think adjusting copyright restrictions -- even temporarily -- is out of bounds, then we have a collective failure of imagination.
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