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Z-Library and its activities are illegal in many jurisdictions. While website seizures reduced the accessibility of the content, [ 17 ] it remains available on the dark web . [ 18 ] The legal status of the project, as well as its potential impact on the publishing industry and authors' rights, is a matter of ongoing debate.
Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States. This is usually the result of complaints from parents, who find particular books not appropriate for their children (e.g., books with depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals, like Gender Queer: A ...
Growth of Library Genesis, 2009–2022. One of the goals of shadow libraries is to more readily disseminate academic content, especially papers from academic journals. [2] Academic literature has become increasingly expensive, as costs to access information created by scholars have risen dramatically in recent years, especially the cost of ...
Now that library committees are illegal, Fresno County should scrap the whole thing | Opinion. Marek Warszawski. October 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM. ... In California, there were 52 challenges to 98 book ...
In two separate reports released Monday during Banned Books Week, PEN America and the American Library Association (ALA) provided contrasting data on recent and attempted book bans reported in the ...
A library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to "create a public forum for Web publishers to express themselves, any more than it collects books in order to provide a public forum for the authors of books to speak." The Court explained that the Internet is simply "another method for making information available in a school or library...
In California such depictions specifically do not fall under state child pornography laws, while in Utah they are explicitly banned. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] However, there are legal arguments that state laws criminalizing such works are invalid in the wake of Ashcroft , and some judges have rejected these laws on constitutional grounds. [ 162 ]
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...