European Graphic Novels+
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Dear JohnnyEnzyme, thank you for moderating this community.
I was under the impression that archive.org is not illegal nor does it host pirated content: archive.org about. I found it interesting to take a look into the beginning of the story and get an impression of the art style and wanted to share my finding (also it looks like you can't buy it anymore).
But maybe I'm wrong in this case (https://help.archive.org/help/rights/) - I can't decide it and I don't care enough about exploitation rights to look further into it. You may be right to opt for deletion if in doubt.
First of all, thank you for the helpful response!
Altho I love the Internet Archive, my impression is that at best it exists in a distinctly 'grey area' of copyright. AFAIK it has not in fact received permission from any of the legal rights-holders to host their content there.
And yes, it's all very well to (rightfully) claim that it's the users who did the uploading and that AO will remove any material as requested, that's not the same thing as being in compliance with copyright law as various rights-holders have themselves claimed, which is why many of them would love nothing more than to shut the AO down.
The real problem on our end is that we don't want to cause any problems for our host as well as Lemmy, overall. That link you shared is obviously a treasure trove of Sillage albums, but of course it was all scanned and uploaded without copyright permission, and therefore constitutes pirated content virtually to the letter of the law.
OTOH I'm frequently posting copyrighted content myself, but I do try to keep it in the spirit of fair-usage excerpts which generally fit the model of promoting a work without sharing the entire thing... frankly another grey area that might need to be revisited at some point. And you would be absolutely right to point out that I've linked to some complete short stories on Imgur that I certainly didn't have permission to post(!)
In that spirit, I'd say you'd be perfectly fine linking to the first several pages of a Sillage (or whatever) album on Imgur, etc if you wanted to help introduce people to the series. And yes, I get that would probably be a lot more work than you're interested in, but that's exactly the kind of thing I frequently do in putting my posts together here...
Thanks for your reply. I agree with the things you wrote. With an emphasis on: I shouldn't hurt the ones who host the lemmy instances through carelessness.