Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights
Shame on these big-name publishers for trying to restrict fair use of books when the pandemic has effectively made it impossible to access physical libraries. @internetarchive is an invaluable scholarly resource and must be protected at all costs. https://www.theverge.com/...
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette and Wiley accused Internet Archive of piracy, for making over 1 million books free online during the coronavirus outbreak https://www.nytimes.com/...
Internet Archive has made more than a million books available for free online in what it called an effort to “serve the nation's displaced learners.” Publishers and authors call it something else: theft. https://www.nytimes.com/...
A group of publishers sued Internet Archive, saying that the nonprofit group's trove of free electronic copies of books is robbing authors and publishers of revenue at a moment when it is desperately needed https://www.nytimes.com/...