{"id":1916,"date":"2019-03-01T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2019-03-01T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:28:15","slug":"asa-advises-authors-to-send-takedown-notices-to-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2019\/03\/01\/1916\/asa-advises-authors-to-send-takedown-notices-to-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"ASA advises authors to send takedown notices to Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has condemned the activities of the Internet Archive\u2019s Open Library in its unlicensed lending of scanned copies of physical books and is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asauthors.org\/news\/update-on-internet-archive-and-call-to-action\"><span class=\"s2\">advising authors<\/span><\/a> to contact the Internet Archive and request the removal of their titles from the Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ASA\u2019s advice follows a response from the Internet Archive to the ASA\u2019s open letter on the Archive\u2019s activities, written in conjunction with the Society of Authors in the UK and the Authors Guild in the US. In response to the letter, the Internet Archive told the ASA that it would prefer to work directly with individual authors, and invites authors to contact it with any complaints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ASA encourages authors to search the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Open Library<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for their titles, send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@archive.org\"><span class=\"s2\">info@archive.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0requesting their removal, and inform their publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><em>This news story first appeared in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2019\/02\/14\/123711\/asa-advises-authors-to-send-takedown-notices-to-internet-archive\/\">Books+Publishing<\/a><em>\u00a0on 14 February 2019.\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing\u00a0<em>is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/subscription\/\"><i>subscribers<\/i><\/a><em>\u00a0up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has condemned the activities of the Internet Archive\u2019s Open Library in its unlicensed lending of scanned copies of physical books and is\u00a0advising authors to contact the Internet Archive and request the removal of their titles from the Library. The ASA\u2019s advice follows a response from the Internet Archive to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}