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Internet Archive Loses Copyright Lawsuit: What to Know

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The Internet Archive is a nonprofit that has built a “digital library’ of websites, books, audio recordings, videos, images and other research for the general public. Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House all sued the nonprofit after they offered a National Emergency Library. The Internet Archive said the National Emergency library was legal under the fair use doctrine, but publishers say the act was “mass copyright infringement”

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Internet Archive Loses Copyright Lawsuit: What to Know

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the early days of COVID-19.

2 years ago·United States

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The European Times News

Internet Archive Loses First Battle in Publishers’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

Digital database Internet Archive lost the first ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the “nonprofit library” by four of the biggest publishing companies.

2 years ago

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