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Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/26/2022 - 11:50Internet Archive Draws Support In Battle Over Digital Book Loans (MediaPost)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/15/2022 - 08:57Publishers Battle Internet Archive Over Digital Library
Major book publishers are pressing a judge to rule that an 11-year-old digital lending program established by the nonprofit Internet Archive infringes copyright. “Masquerading as a not-for-profit library, Internet Archive digitizes in-copyright print books on an industrial scale and distributes full-text digital bootlegs for free,” lawyers for Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House write in papers filed with US District Court Judge John Koeltl in the Southern District of New York.