I’ve been perusing the wiki looking for some sources, and I think I may even want to contribute to it in a month or so. But I noticed a lot of the book references include libgen links. While I think it’s a great convenience, couldn’t having it be so prominent eventually get the project in legal trouble?
Some of the library works are also copyrighted, but copyright is just used by the bourgeoisie to make revolutionary content inaccessible to people who can’t afford it. Internet Archive faces some of the same legal issues but remains a valuable resource for millions of people.
Oh definitely I agree that copyright has no value for society. I’m pretty sure even most writers cited would be okay with us sharing it and the publishers would be the only ones complaining. My worry is just that the website might get hit with some form of legal action if there are explicit links there. I guess it depends mostly on just where the server is hosted, since obviously libgen and piratebay don’t get taken down themselves that often. MIA had some issues in the past with some copyrighted Marx letters getting taken down (how does that even happen?), so I was wary of something like that happening here too.
The general opinion is we’ll cross that bridge when we get there, but we’re not hosted in the US so they’ll have to look at the proper mechanisms to get our links taken down… push comes to shove we can always take down the offending links or even try to get permission from the copyright holder to rehost the texts.
It’s unlikely they’ll take legal action against PW and we have defenses against that too anyway. If PW ever gets taken down for whatever reason we can rehost anywhere else in less than a day.
