TikTok Ban Deadline Extended Again; UK Conference Tackles AI and Piracy: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

I had approached filing the end-of-week news with the kind of trepidation that seems to come around on a regular cycle—a cycle that lasts as long as the latest TikTok ban deadline. But sure enough, as I sat down to…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/tiktok-ban-deadline/

#AIinPublishing #copyrightenforcement #Mastodonscrapingban #shadowlibraries #TikTokBan
@indieauthors

Library Genesis is down, but this time I'm worried.
https://torrentfreak.com/domain-seizures-and-german-isp-blockade-add-to-libgens-troubles-241222/ And, #SciHub seems to be working: "common ownership of the means of production,
free access to articles of consumption" #LibGen #LibraryGenesis. #shadowLibraries #OpenSource

In a new paper, Alexandra Elbakyan (the founder of #SciHub) distinguishes between four different types of “Black Open Access”:
· classic shadow libraries, e.g. Library Genesis;
· online literature-sharing communities;
· automatic tools for paywall circumvention, e.g. Sci-Hub;
· academic social networks, e.g. Academia.edu / Researchgate

She also suggests a colour spectrum to acknowledge the significance of these open access models: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202409.0197/v2

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-must-pay-publishers-30m-but-no-one-knows-who-runs-it/

#AnnasArchive gelingt Zugriff auf die weltweit größte Bücher-Datenbank #worldcat und ruft einen Miniwettbewerb aus! https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/e-books/annas-archive-gelingt-zugriff-auf-die-weltweit-groesste-buecher-datenbank-281121.html #shadowlibraries #freeKnowledge #ebooks #piracy

#Anna has created a new search engine for some major #shadowlibraries. Enjoy the discoveries.

https://annas-archive.org/

Hi ! we are a #wiki / #library / #catalogue for arts and studies , here to spread the word about recent and historical publications and projects in #experimentalart #permacomputing #lowtech #climateaction #decoloniality #technofeminisms #capitalocene #criticaltheory #shadowlibraries #communityservers #communityradio #everydaytechnology #libreculture #floss #diwo #care #artistpublishing #soundart #experimentalfilm #arthistory #weird etc.. Thank you @lurk for hosting us on #mastodon and everyone in the #fediverse for believing in it and making it such a welcoming space #introduction