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Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: How Archaic Are the Opinions Here?

"much poorer if our greatest authors had not liberally plundered each others ideas and built on them."

"and built on them." is the difference between plagiarism and innovation. The arguments and court cases are usually about the grey areas in between.

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