Internet Archive Loses Landmark E-Book Lending Copyright Appeal Against Publishers
In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit organization that, among other things, scans physical books in-house so these can be lent out to patrons as e-books. This “Controlled Digital Lending” (CDL) practice allows for only one copy of a book to be lent at a time,...
