The fate of a nonprofit online book library is in the hands of a judge after four book publishers filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
, “What they’re doing is supplanting what authors and publishers do with libraries and have been doing for a long time.”
Internet Archive opened in 1996 to digitize newspapers and has since grown, now saying it functions like a physical library. The nonprofit began digitizing books in 2005 and according to its , it scans 4,300 books per day in 18 locations around the world. Internet Archive boasts of spreading “universal access to all knowledge” but the publishing houses claim it is still an illegal act., that has been a long-running function and aim of publishing houses who have invested time, money, and resources into creating and distributing books, not to mention the researching and writing efforts of the author.
By scanning and distributing digital books to readers free of charge, the lawsuit claims Internet Archive is exploiting “the investments that publishers have made in their books, and it does so through a business model that is designed to free-ride on the work of others.” The book publishers say this practice makes Internet Archive “nothing more than a mass copier and distributor of bootleg works.
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