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When you think about public libraries and the publishers’ market power in digital book licensing, sit for a minute with the fact that publishers view free book lending as a form of unfair competition that they’d like to eliminate. If ©️ law can’t support and sustain public libraries in the digital age, then its constitutional purpose has been abandoned. #copyright #lawfedi
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publisher-ebook-library-lawsuit
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publisher-ebook-library-lawsuit
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library.Jay Peters (The Verge)