An appeals court affirmed the earlier ruling that the Internet Archive's Open Library content qualifies as copyright infringement
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the previous decision, from March 2023, that the Internet Archive’s Open Library program qualifies as copyright infringement. Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley initially filed a lawsuit against the popular nonprofit organization in 2020.
Not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access we need to provide digital versions of books,” IA. “One of the Internet Archive’s missions is to serve people who have difficulty interacting with physical books, so most of our digitized books are available to people with print disabilitiesThe court rejected most of the Internet Archive’s defense, including the notion that the archive provides a public service.
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