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by leonidasrup3 hours ago |
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upvoteby infecto2 hours ago|
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Puts the burden on government to store what is probably 90% worthless material.

Copyright should really be amended so that once out of print and a grace period it’s free use. I am probably more of an anarchist in this regard. Similar to my belief that anyone should be able to ingest any data you put online, once a book is no longer being print it should be able to be used for commercial or personal use for free. Similar to a generic drugs.

There is far too much garbage that gets published, let the collective hive mind figure out what is valuable.

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upvoteby pessimizer1 hours ago|
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> Puts the burden on government to store what is probably 90% worthless material.

That's what governments are for.

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upvoteby infecto1 hours ago|
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Since we are talking about a US perspective do you have evidence that backs this up? It just comes across as an empty statement. The government is the will of the people and I personally like the idea of fixing copyright instead of making the government store how to use windows 95 books.

Sure some governments and opinions would say so but you’re making a statement of zero impact. Fix the underlying copyright laws don’t create more rules.

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upvoteby brookst2 hours ago|
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Wait, so the library of congress is suddenly responsible for probably petabytes a day of incoming scans? To what end? Do they have to index it and make it available? Do they have to check the accuracy and integrity of the scans?

How does this help anything, except create more work to throw in the trash?

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upvoteby ro_sharp2 hours ago|
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This is already required for new books published in the US, and has been for more than one hundred years.

It’s called “mandatory deposit”

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upvoteby jjkaczor2 hours ago|
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Actually - most jurisdictions that issue a publisher a unique root ISBN number have a stipulation that anything new published using that number must have a copy sent to them.

Looked into this a decade ago for publishing eBooks via my personal corp when eReaders and ePub were starting to hit big in the mainstream.

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upvoteby ndriscoll2 hours ago|
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Wrong end of the pipeline; we should instead demand digital copies of media be sent to the Library of Congress in order to obtain copyright, along with a registration fee to pay for indefinite storage and other costs. Registration should be mandatory if you want copyright. For things like books where a machine readable text format existed, it should be mandatory to include (so no requiring OCR). Access to the archive should be available for research use (including ML training) at cost.
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upvoteby brainwad1 hours ago|
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The Library of Congress already has a copy of every book published in the US. How would this help?
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upvoteby toast037 minutes ago|
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If the Library of Congress has a digital copy, it would be easier for them to distribute the work after the copyright of the work expires. That would be a public benefit.
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upvoteby bell-cot31 minutes ago|
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IANAL, but I recall copyright law being far too complex for any easy Protected/Not Protected test to exist.
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upvoteby starkd2 hours ago|
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So now the Library of Congress has to manage all these submissions whenever someone scans something? How do you even go about enforcing such a thing?
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upvoteby Upvoter333 hours ago|
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I love this idea. At least make them turn it into some form of a public good.
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