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slowglow:

thelibrarianontherun:

“On Wednesday, The Supreme Court upheld a 1994 law which gives copyright protection to body of foreign works that had previously been available for free in the public domain.

The search company (Google, Inc.), which didn’t respond to a request for comment, said in court papers that the restored copyrights could affect more than a million books it has scanned through its Google Books Library Project.”

Whyyyyyy? I was planning on reading the Hobbit online :(

Probably because whoever’s publishing those books would like to make money, just like every other media distributer, rather than have people actually, idk, read.

We don’t have to burn books. We can just make them unavailable to people who don’t have disposable incomes. (And I think I’m realizing more and more that that’s what this is: an issue of wealth and class.)