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"With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term
expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is
pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites publishers to sell their
e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several
independent publishers including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, and Silver
Sprocket are on board.
An initiative of the Brick House publishing cooperative and the Flaming Hydra
collective of journalists and artists, Briet (rhymes with plié) is named after,
and an homage to, the late French librarian Suzanne Briet. Notably, the open
platform arose not long after judges decided in favor of publishers in a
lawsuit against the Internet Archive, determining that the IA’s scanning of
copyright-protected print materials and lending of the digital copies
constituted copyright infringement and was not fair use as the IA contended.
Flaming Hydra cofounder and journalist Maria Bustillos, a Brick House member
who has been instrumental to Briet’s philosophy and construction, said the
collective began to build the digital platform about 18 months ago, even as the
IA case was still in court. The app is a “response to the crisis in e-book
licensing and the increasing encroachment on the rights of librarians” to
determine what goes into their collections and afford both print and digital
books, Bustillos said. “I’m really concerned for the future of archiving and
the preservation of digital ownership rights for libraries.”"
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