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2026-07-21 01:02 UTC
Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox Machine Were Wrong
1975 Xerox machine lawsuit: publishers vs libraries amicus briefs AI summary and then AI blog post it.
The exhibits
Exhibit A — the photocopier is a printing press
Exhibit B — the journals will simply die
Exhibit C — one copy replaces all copies
Exhibit D — a censorship apocalypse
Exhibit E — the slippery slope to the end of publishing
Exhibit F — death of the marketplace of ideas
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@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org 2026-07-21 01:04
2/2 Internet Archive all the US Supreme Court filings (not available on the Internet before) https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/. making analysis like this possible. AI summary of briefs: https://archive.org/details/micro_IA40385001_1623/review/Williams_Wilkins_Briefs_Guide.pdf AI summary blog post https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/07/20/good-by-to-gutenberg-nope-shrill-publisher-cries-about-xerox-machine-were-wrong/