Case triggered by lending of scanned and digitised books during Covid lockdown likely to end up in the US supreme court via IrishTimesBiz
I imagine that, were he alive today, Dickens would be blathering on, criticising big publishers for bringing a case that’s being heard this week in the United States. It challenges whether the silly and ill-conceived concept of lending libraries and – pah! – “public good”, belongs in the digital age.
On Monday, a New York court heard arguments in a case brought by the Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House against the non-profit, in June 2020. Founded by internet pioneer Brewster Kahle, the internationally valued Internet Archive scans and digitises books, including many that are out of print and could otherwise be lost forever and loans them out as physical libraries lend books – to one borrower at a time, for a brief period.
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