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CSMastermind 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after...

> what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books

They believed they had the legal right to distribute the books.

You can read the whitepaper about it here: https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/

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