![]() They are located at the following URL’s on your site: Please remove my book(s) from the Open Library website and any other website owned or controlled by you. It has come to my attention that, without permission from either me or my publisher, you have scanned and are making my book(s) available for “loan” and also for download on your publicly available website, anyone in the world can create a login, check the book out and then download it in its entirety, which is a clear infringement of my copyright. I am the author of the book(s) noted below. Note that the site administrators will reject takedown requests if they feel that there are errors in the data supplied to them so check notices carefully to make sure that the infringing URLs are accurate and that the removal requests are sent correctly as required by the site. If that doesn’t work, send a takedown notice yourself, emailing the below sample text provided by the Authors Guild. Please notify us by emailing Contact your publisher and agent and ask them to send a takedown notice (usually through the Publishers Association Portal).You may want to check whether your own books have been made available in this way. Each author who was checked found that one or more of their in-copyright books were available in the Open Library for download. Although the site mimics regular library lending in that only one person can check out a book at a time, once checked out, the full text of the books can be easily downloaded. It seeks donations of hard-copy books from libraries and individuals and then scans, digitises, and offers them for lending and downloading without paying royalties or PLR.Īccording to our sister organisation the Authors Guild of America, while they have been doing this for some time they have recently posted a large quantity of scanned books (including works still in copyright) on their Open Library website.Īnyone can log-in, from anywhere in the world, search for and click on a book to 'check it out' for a period of two weeks. The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |