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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

by Isabella Lucy Bird and Daniel J. Boorstin  · 1 Jan 1873  · 536pp  · 79,887 words

of frame houses, and while and beautiful areas were still largely untouched. --Erica Bauermeister [Amazon] About This ePub 1st Edition 1879, John Murray, London Open Library OL7022845M Internet Archive inrockyladyslife00birdrich 1st Modern Edition 1960, University of Oklahoma Press Series: The Western Frontier Library Series (Book 14) Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin OCLC 654948612 Revised

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

by Orlando Figes  · 7 Oct 2019

’Instruction, established in 1861 by the printer Jean-Baptiste Girard, whose declared, rather hopeful aim was to wean the labouring classes off the cabaret by opening libraries for them. The public-library movement was slower to develop in the rest of Europe. But everywhere it gathered pace from the 1880s, as public

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Exposition of 1851 (London, 1851), pp. 42–3. 26. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Review: May–October 1850’, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, cited from Marxist-org Internet Archive. 27. Clare Pettitt, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford, 2004), p. 86. 28. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans

Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff

by Dinah Sanders  · 7 Oct 2011  · 267pp  · 78,857 words

the rest to discard some debt. Enjoy more free stuff. Visit the library. Take advantage of the great entertainment resources online, such as the Internet Archive’s Open Library and free songs offered by bands on their websites. If you do spend money on something, pay less for it. About to go shopping? Think

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/products/omnifocus Onstad, Chris. “Achewood: Are You a Hoarder?” Techland. Time. 17 November 2009. http://techland.time.com/2009/11/17/are-you-a-hoarder Open Library. http://openlibrary.org Organdonor.gov. http://organdonor.gov Pomplamoose. http://pomplamoose.com ____. “Always in the Season.” 17 December 2009. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Il

Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

by Glyn Moody  · 26 Sep 2022  · 295pp  · 66,912 words

. From Analogue to Digital Big Content’s plan to take total control online Chapter 2. Hostage Works and Vanishing Ebooks Publishers sue Google and the Internet Archive for sharing knowledge and culture Chapter 3. Aaron Swartz’s Manifesto Making all publicly funded research freely available through open access Chapter 4. Internet Users

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society and its freedoms by building new legal and technical walls around culture. CHAPTER 2 Hostage Works and Vanishing Ebooks Publishers sue Google and the Internet Archive for sharing knowledge and culture The constant extensions of copyright term described in the previous chapter and the removal of the copyright formalities32 previously required

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million images, texts, videos and sounds from across the nation. The efforts of both of these entities are dwarfed by that of the Internet Archive.87 In 2005, the Internet Archive announced the Open Content Alliance,88 which coordinated hundreds of libraries to digitise millions of books. The Open Library89 project has created a

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projects. This was an open alternative to the Google project, and has continued to digitise over 1 million books per year. As well as the Internet Archive’s unique archive of the Internet over the last twenty-five years, which amounts to nearly 600 billion Web pages, there are also scans of

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,000 live concerts); 6 million videos (including 2 million TV news programmes); 3.5 million images; and 580,000 software programs. The founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, explained the background to this immense project: “The idea for me, at least for the Internet, was to try to build the Great

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the copyright owner has already been compensated for a legitimately acquired item, is fair use.’96 In 2016, Kahle laid out his vision for the Internet Archive Open Libraries97 project, launched in 2010,98 based on the idea behind CDL: “Today, people get their information online—often filtered through for-profit platforms

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costs, e-book restrictions, policy risks, and missing infrastructure. We now have the technology and legal frameworks to transform our library system by 2020. The Internet Archive, working with library partners, proposes bringing millions of books online, through purchase or digitization, starting with the books most widely held and used in libraries

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their analog collections for a new generation of learners, enabling free, long-term, public access to knowledge.”99 By 2022, the Open Libraries project had digitised 2.7 million books, and the Internet Archive had been operating its digital lending library for a decade. However, for 12 weeks during the spring of 2020, the

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Internet Archive’s system worked a little differently. The global Covid-19 pandemic forced libraries around the world to close their physical locations, and library patrons could

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not access the millions of books that libraries had bought from publishers. Libraries and schools across the globe reached out to the Internet Archive for help. Under those unprecedented circumstances, the Internet Archive lifted its one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio (while retaining other controls, such as a two-week loan period and

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a lawsuit against the Internet Archive104 alleging copyright infringement, and seeking damages and lawyers’ fees. According to the legal complaint, the lawsuit was regarding the Internet Archive’s ‘purposeful collection of truckloads of in-copyright books to scan, reproduce, and then distribute digital bootleg versions online.’105 The hyperbolic term ‘bootleg’ was

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used no less than five times in the document. As a result of the lawsuit, the Internet Archive announced that it was closing the National Emergency Library two weeks early,106 on 16 June 2021. Kahle explained: “[It] was to run for fourteen

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of dollars.”107 At the time of writing, the matter is still pending in court. The president of the Authors Guild, Douglas Preston, said: ‘The Internet Archive hopes to fool the public by calling its piracy website a “library,” but there’s a more accurate term for taking what you don’t

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attempt to frame the digital world of abundance in terms of analogue scarcity and to negate the key advantage of the digital format. But the Internet Archive owned the books, which it lent out just like any other library.109 Preston also said that free ebooks were available through libraries if people

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] have focused on acquiring and digitizing books from the 1920s–1990s that don’t have an ebook available except for our scanned copy.’110 The Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library was not only fulfilling a pressing need for access to key works for students, it also revealed a major failure by

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain 40 https://web.archive.org/web/20220705074438/https://fortune.com/2020/11/28/digital-publishing-copyright-champion-lila-bailey-internet-archive/ 41 https://web.archive.org/web/20220621182436/https://www.techdirt.com/2015/10/13/digital-orphans-massive-cultural-black-hole-our-horizon/ 42 https://web

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https://web.archive.org/web/20220621074031/https://walledculture.org/interview-brewster-kahle-libraries-role-3-internet-battles-licensing-pains-the-national-emergency-library-and-the-internet-archives-controlled-digital-lending-efforts-vs-the-publishers-lawsuit/ 92 https://web.archive.org/web/20220817072842/https:/digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol12/iss2/8 93 https

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/page-turner/the-national-emergency-library-is-a-gift-to-readers-everywhere 102 https://web.archive.org/web/20220621164306/https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending/ 103 https://web.archive.org/web/20220621164330/https://publishers.org/news/comment-from-aap-president-and-ceo-maria-pallante-on-the

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-emergency-library/ 104 https://web.archive.org/web/20220621164359/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/83472-publishers-charge-the-internet-archive-with-copyright-infringement.html 105 https://web.archive.org/web/20220620201839/https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/ARTICLE_ATTACHMENT/file/000/004/4388-1.pdf

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https://web.archive.org/web/20220621165251/https://walledculture.org/interview-brewster-kahle-libraries-role-3-internet-battles-licensing-pains-the-national-emergency-library-and-the-internet-archives-controlled-digital-lending-efforts-vs-the-publishers-lawsuit/ 108 https://web.archive.org/web/20220621164359/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher

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-news/article/83472-publishers-charge-the-internet-archive-with-copyright-infringement.html 109 https://web.archive.org/web/20220701075637/https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/04/major-publishers-sue

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-internet-archives-digital-library-program-midst-pandemic/ 110 https://web.archive.org/web/20220701075917/https://help.archive.org/help/national-emergency-library-faqs/ 111 https://web.archive.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20220616153814/https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-2-new-publishing-models-for-creators-amazon-as-a-frenemy-and-the-internet-archive-court-case/ 267 https://web.archive.org/web/20220617092736/https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig 268 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616153851/https

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https://web.archive.org/web/20220616153814/https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-2-new-publishing-models-for-creators-amazon-as-a-frenemy-and-the-internet-archive-court-case/ 283 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616160148/https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/rebecca-giblin 284 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616160226

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-commons/ 634 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616121321/https://walledculture.org/interview-lawrence-lessig-internet-architecture-remix-culture-creative-commons-nfts-aaron-swartz-and-the-internet-archive/ 635 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616121340/https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator

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-movies 650 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616121321/https://walledculture.org/interview-lawrence-lessig-internet-architecture-remix-culture-creative-commons-nfts-aaron-swartz-and-the-internet-archive/ 651 https://web.archive.org/web/20220616122617/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/07/film-lost-netflix-the-afterlight-london-film-fesitval-digital-media

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copyright, or want to understand fully the legislation, get a lawyer, and a good one. Finally, my thanks to the Kahle/Austin Foundation and the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle for supporting both the Walled Culture blog and this book, and to my family for supporting me. Glyn Moody 1 https://web

The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

by Justin Peters  · 11 Feb 2013  · 397pp  · 102,910 words

his beloved Library of Alexandria—to Amazon for $250 million in stock, and then turned his attentions to building and maintaining the Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996. The nonprofit Internet Archive is dedicated to the overwhelming task of archiving the entire World Wide Web. It sends little “spiders” spinning across the Web

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” through every website they can find and to memorize what those sites looked like on any given day. Those snapshots are then stored on the Internet Archive’s servers, where they serve as a massive, functional photo album of the World Wide Web past and present. For Kahle, however, archiving websites for

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posterity had always been a prelude to the archiving of books. In late summer 2002, Kahle began uploading public-domain books onto the Internet Archive servers. Then he purchased an old Ford minivan and christened it the Internet Bookmobile. On the side of the bookmobile, written in the Comic Sans

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were a couple of laptop computers, a high-speed color printer, and a bookbinding machine; on its roof sat a satellite dish connected to the Internet Archive’s servers in California. That fall, Kahle packed his eight-year-old son, a couple of friends, and a freelance journalist named Richard Koman into

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gathered a crowd. “Woohoo! We’re making books!” he cried, and that’s exactly what he proceeded to do. A user could connect to the Internet Archive’s servers, download a public-domain text, print it out, and run it through the bookbinding machine. After fifteen minutes, the user owned a brand

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not only the entire library world, but the entire information ecosystem.”62 In a bid to thwart Google’s tentacular machinations, Kahle came up with Open Library, another hugely ambitious project that proposed the creation of a separate webpage for every single book that had ever been published. Kahle asked Swartz to

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sets and the people who love them,” Swartz wrote by way of introduction.13 Swartz loved them more than most. Concurrent with his work for Open Library, Swartz had crawled the Google Books archive and downloaded approximately 530,000 public-domain texts.14 In collaboration with the Stanford law student Shireen Barday

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copy. Any reluctance to embrace free culture is a function of greed: for Swartz, the moral equation was often that simple. During his work with Open Library, for instance, Swartz hoped to utilize existing online catalog records that had been created by a pioneering library consortium called the Online Computer Library Center

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around the world. OCLC is inarguably the world’s largest and most important library catalog, and Swartz came to believe that it did not want Open Library to challenge its supremacy. In November 2008, OCLC changed its terms of service to now stipulate that users were forbidden to use WorldCat data for

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like he is a big hacker, i googled him,” was one MIT police officer’s response upon Swartz’s arrest.9 Not Reddit cofounder; not Open Library architect; not computer prodigy or applied sociologist or Harvard affiliate or any of the other lines on his résumé. A big hacker. And a suspicious

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and work, and recounted the day of his arrest. She told them that Swartz was solitary and prone to depression. She mentioned his work with Open Library and Demand Progress. She explained that academics despised the academic publishing system, and that Swartz didn’t like it much either.23 Norton wrote about

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for the Future’s count, their participation serving to illustrate the “darkening effect” that SOPA and PIPA would have on the Internet at large. “The Internet Archive is already blacklisted in China—let’s prevent the United States from establishing its own blacklist system,” wrote Brewster Kahle.68 “If you like what

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Swartz grew up, the Internet delivered both people and projects to him. From the Semantic Web message-board communities to the Creative Commons team, from Open Library to PACER to Demand Progress, all of the world-changing initiatives on which Swartz had worked had been digital. The Internet is both a conduit

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.aaronsw.com/weblog/everythinggood. 55 Aaron Swartz, “Launch,” Raw Meat, May 3, 2007, http://qblog.aaronsw.com/post/1483459/launch. 56 Aaron Swartz, “Announcing the Open Library,” Raw Thought, July 16, 2007, http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibrary. 57 Becky Hogge, “Brewster Kahle,” New Statesman, October 17, 2005, http://www.newstatesman.com

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/node/151776. 58 Jones, “Constructing the Universal Library,” 275. 59 Ibid., 276. 60 For more on the differing approaches of Open Library and Google Books, see Jones, “Constructing the Universal Library.” 61 Heidi Benson, “A Man’s Vision: World Library Online,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2005

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.sfgate.com/news/article/A-MAN-S-VISION-WORLD-LIBRARY-ONLINE-Brewster-2593527.php. 62 Jones, “Constructing the Universal Library,” 282. 63 Swartz, “Announcing the Open Library.” 64 Aaron Swartz, “Bubble City: Preface,” Raw Thought, October 31, 2007, http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity. 65 Aaron Swartz, “Bubble City: Chapter 2,” Raw

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/http://americancensorship.org/. 67 Moon, Ruffini, and Segal, Hacking Politics, 117. 68 Brewster Kahle, “12 Hours Dark: Internet Archive vs. Censorship,” Internet Archive Blogs, January 17, 2012, https://blog.archive.org/2012/01/17/12-hours-dark-internet-archive-vs-censorship/. 69 Senator Bob Menendez, Twitter post, January 17, 2012, 3:17 p.m., https://twitter

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, 172, 197–200 social networks on, 127, 238 terms-of-service agreements on, 218–19 usability issues, 125 and World Wide Web, 98, 108–10 Internet Archive, 135–36, 242 Internet at Liberty conference, 201 Internet Censorship Day, 240, 241 Internet’s Own Boy, The (documentary), 14 Internet Wiretap, 112 Irving, Washington

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, 112 Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), 179–80 open access, 174–81, 189–90, 230 Open Content Alliance, 162–64 open-information movement, 98, 103 Open Library, 163, 173, 179, 223, 228, 267 O’Reilly Media, 129, 131 Ortiz, Carmen M., 4–5, 264 Oyama, Katherine, 239 Pallante, Maria, 239 Panic of

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and MIT, 1, 3, 201, 204, 207, 213, 222, 227, 232, 249–50, 262 and money, 170–71 on morality and ethics, 205–6 and Open Library, 163, 173, 179, 223, 228 and PCCC, 202–3, 225 as private person/isolation of, 2–3, 5, 124, 127, 143, 154–55, 158–60

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz  · 4 Nov 2016  · 374pp  · 97,288 words

of modern invention.”53 How does one “read by steam” in the digital age? Numerous library-related entities are exploring that question, from the Internet Archive’s Open Library to the Digital Public Library of America.54 Even the New York Public Library has a geek team, a group they call NYPL Labs.55

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): 28, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5934&context=atg, accessed September 4, 2015. 54. For more information on these endeavors, see Open Library’s website, https://openlibrary.org/, accessed September 4, 2015, and the Digital Public Library of America’s website, http://dp.la/, accessed September 4, 2015

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–185 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 186 Intangible property. See Property Intellectual property, 11–19, 24–26, 62–63, 71, 75, 111, 173 Internet Archive, 117 Internet of Things (IoT), 13, 135, 140–141, 145, 150, 152, 157 Interview, The, 9, 197 Isbell, Jason, 51 Iyengar, Sheena S., 211 Jailbreaking

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre  · 18 Jan 2023

; Jola Dervishaj, “Policy and Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence,” European AI Alliance, June 26, 2019, https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/european-ai-alliance/open-library/policy-and-investment-recommendations-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence; “Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI,” European Commission, April 8, 2019, updated March 8, 2021, https://digital-strategy.ec

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%90%86%E8%A7%A3%E6%98%AF%E4%B8%80%E7%A7%8D%E6%80%8E%E6%A0%B7, (page discontinued), archived by the Internet Archive September 4, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20190904143341/https://www.msra.cn/zh-cn/news/outreach-articles/%E5%AE%9E%E4%B9%A0%E6

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China: “2018年微软亚洲研究院-教育部产学合作协同育人项目（第一批） [2018 Microsoft Research Asia—Ministry of Education Industry—University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project (First Batch)],” Microsoft Research Asia, October 2018, captured by the Internet Archive October 15, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20201015180833/https://www.msra.cn/zh-cn/connections/academic-programs/academia-industry-cooperation-2018-1; Fedasiuk and

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, and Removal of Entities From the Entity List.” 184production capacity at the 14 nm node: “About Us,” Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, 2022, captured by the Internet Archive February 1, 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220201031506/https://www.smics.com/en/site/about_summary; Khan, Mann, and Peterson, The Semiconductor Supply Chain

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

. So he obtained the book-cataloguing data kept by the Library of Congress, for which it usually charged, and posted it on something called the Open Library. He found his way into 19.9 million pages of electronic records of US court proceedings and uploaded them for all to see on theinfo

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under the same kind of Creative Commons licence.43 Freely available digital library resources, such as the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana and the Internet Archive—to name but three—support this purpose.44 So does the scientific preprint site arXiv, which reportedly includes half of all the world’s physics

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, 25 April 2013, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/. Europeana, http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ and the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/index.php 45. see Nielsen 2012, 161–63 46. Galaxy Zoo, http://perma.cc/W5M4-PAHW 47. I take these examples from

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–26, 153, 158, 217, 254, 288, 292–93, 299–302, 317, 331, 342, 377. See also defamation Library of Alexandria, 162 Library of Congress and Open Library, 164–65 Libya (Benghazi), 64, 66, 68 Liebling, A. J., 48, 189–90, 193, 194–95 Liechtenstein, 293 lifeblood, 77, 119–28 Lilburne, John (‘Free

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, one-to-many communication, 11 On Liberty (Mill), 97, 106 Only Words (MacKinnon), 248 open access, 164–67 open debate, 232–33 Open Leaks, 344 Open Library, 164–65 openness, 211–14, 252 Open Society Justice Initiative, 333 Open Translation Projects, 176 ‘opt-in’ settings, 249 Orbán, Viktor, 191 Ortiz, Carmen, 165