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ARTICLE · 12 APRIL 2023

Publishers Win E-Literary War: Judge Rules That Digital Lending Library Violates Copyrights

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Last week, a Manhattan federal judge ruled in favor of four major publishing companies in their suit against the Internet Archive for scanning and lending digital copies of copyright protected books without permission.

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Last week, a Manhattan federal judge ruled in favor of four major publishing companies in their suit against the Internet Archive for scanning and lending digital copies of copyright protected books without permission. Here is what you need to know:

Four major publishers - Hachette Book Group Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Penguin Random House LLC, and John Wiley & Sons Inc. - sued Internet Archive in June 2020 for unlawful use of 127 copyright protected books by scanning print copies of those books and lending digital copies to its users without any licensing agreements or payment to authors or publishers in the early days of COVID-19.

Internet Archive ("IA"), an organization whose professed mission is to provide universal, democratized access to knowledge, disputed the publisher's allegations, explaining that it is merely bringing "traditional library lending into the digital age, allowing library books to be more effectively used to benefit the public that

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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