Hi all, I agree with Laura, I strongly guess knowledge (in any form) need absolutely to get shared as much as possible. We have wars, all around the world, and it is because people is ignorant (yes, governs included - and yes, corporation's money avidity is a form of ignorance), people does not know the "beauty", but this is not a matter of discussion, here.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY I would just point the stress on the fact that anyone who produce goods, art, something, has a specific duty: provide it to the people (which does NOT mean for free), and this is just because he is able to produce his "product" thanks, and only thanks, to his/her leaving in our society. I understand who complains about copyright violation, and I also think there is one thing you have to do, day by day, to be roughly sure to live in a proper (for the context/society) way: think to the future, ask youself how in twenty years our mindset/ideas/statements will survive or change. Copyright is going to disappear, signs of that increase. In my opinion, or better, for my feeling, strongly protecting copyright, today (not 20 years ago, but today) is a sort of slipping, sort of not looking outside and learning from the current time. It is absolutely important to be able to live with your art / intellectual production / whatelse (which is one of the highest form of contribution to this society: produce "beauty"), and I think the next method on how we can live thanks to our intellectual producs will be different than Copyright. I'm not enough farsighted to make hypothesis, but it has already started to change. Herei s an example of Social responsibility: I was recently in contact with De Gruyter, they are a 270 years old (!) academic publisher, and look to their sense of responsibility: ------ https://www.degruyter.com The independent academic publisher *De Gruyter* can look back at a company history of 270 years. Today, the De Gruyter group publishes over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, social sciences, STM and law, more than 700 subscription based or Open Access journals, and a variety of digital products. ... CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY As a global scientific publishing house De Gruyter is committed to the widest distribution of its journals to non-profit institutions in developing countries. Through agreements with worldwide organizations we ensure that academic knowledge is accessible at greatly reduced or no cost. De Gruyter is delighted to be part of such initiatives that aim to increase dissemination opportunities for research produced in emerging nations and to bring this scholarly material to the global academic community. ------ Best, Lorenzo On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 23:35, Laura R <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a topic that has always interested me. In this case, I checked > that the book mentioned by Lorenzo in the previous email resides in > Archive.com <http://archive.com/>. > > This humongous website explains: “Because we are a library, we pay special > attention to books. Not everyone has access to a public or academic library > with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provide > digital versions of books. We began a program to digitize books in 2005 and > today we scan 1,000 books per day in 28 locations around the world. Books > published prior to 1923 are available for download, and hundreds of > thousands of modern books can be borrowed through our Open Library site. > Some of our digitized books are only available to the print disabled.” > > It is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Knight Foundation, National > Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and many other > important institutions (see: https://archive.org/about/) > > We could consider their mission equal to any brick and mortar library with > the only difference that reaches out to people who, otherwise, would never > be able to access books. > > When a brick and mortar library receives a book and put it in their > shelves, it doesn’t go back to the author to request permission to lend it > to eventual readers. Public libraries are a precious asset for society. > > A book that resides in a virtual library is not a pirated book. However, > it could be pirated if it were available for download, but this is not the > case for the book mentioned in the previous email. > > But even if there were a minimal risk of pirating it (how? By > screenshooting? Not the best quality, for sure), the benefits of having it > for those who otherwise would not be able to get it, is, in my opinion, > worth do it. > > Remember, not everyone lives in New York, Paris or Hong Kong. There are > places like Misión Chaqueña, northern Argentina, where I just sent a bunch > of books to kids who live in the middle of nowhere and, yes, believe it or > not, they have internet connectivity (because the government set a goal of > digital connection in every school around the country), but they have not a > single brick and mortar library in their village. Digital connection and > digital content is essential for their education. > > And here it comes a virtual public library. And yes, they like folding > paper. > > Laura Rozenberg > > > > On Oct 22, 2019, at 5:27 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > Man , I really don´t think this is a copyright legal availability for > this > > book. > > It is a pirated one. > > > > Sorry. > > > > :-( > > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:42 PM Lorenzo Lucioni < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I apologize if you already treated this specific topic (this specific > >> website). > >> > >> I would bring to your attention the following site: > >> https://archive.org/details/YoshihideMomotaniOrigamiVehiclesjapanese > >> > >> Regards, > >> Lorenzo > >> > >> -- > >> Lorenzo Lucioni > >> Wildenbruchstr. 47 > >> 40545 Duesseldorf - DE > >> > >> +49.1525.9768654 > >> [email protected] > >> > > -- Lorenzo Lucioni Wildenbruchstr. 47 40545 Duesseldorf - DE +49.1525.9768654 [email protected]
