A federal judge has ruled in favor of a group of book publishers who sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for scanning and lending digital copies of copyrighted books in the early days of the pandemic.
Brandon Bell/Getty Imagesfor scanning and lending digital copies of copyrighted books in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
With its other online collections, the Internet Archive had been lending out one digital copy of a book to one reader at a time, but the nonprofit suspended that policy for the National Emergency Library, allowing many readers to borrow the same book at once.The Internet Archive, which strives to provide"universal access to all knowledge," said its emergency online library was legal under the doctrine of fair use.
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