Is There Bad Blood Between Publishers and Libraries?
Internet Archives establishes a National Emergency Library and publishers sue for copyright infringement
Library lending versus literary looting
What happens if a book stored in a digital library with the expectation that it will be released to one person at a time for a limited amount of time is suddenly made available for simultaneous reading to everyone who wants to read it?
Is that literary looting or library lending?
That’s the heart of the legal debate now raging between publishers and digital libraries.
Major publishers are suing Internet Archives for their creation of a National Emergency Library saying that the nonprofit is taking revenue away from authors and publishers during the Coronavirus pandemic.
On June 1st, 2020, Penguin Random House, John Wiley & Sons, Harper Collins, and Random House filed suit against Internet Archives for “willful mass copyright infringement.”
The mission of Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization building a database of digital sources throughout the world, including television programs, websites…
