Internet Archive Loses Court Case Against Book Publishers On Digital Lending
The Internet Archive (IA), a non-profit organization, recently announced that a lower court has ruled against the San Francisco-based digital library in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by four major U.S. publishers. The four plaintiffs in the case are United States’ biggest publishing houses such as Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive committed copyright infringement by scanning and distributing copies of books online....