The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, holding that the Internet ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit upheld a lower court ruling— Hatchett v. The Internet Archive —affirming that the digital library infringed on the copyright of authors that published ...
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal after book publishers successfully sued to block the Open Libraries Project from lending digital scans of books for free online. Judges for the Second Circuit ...
A long-running lawsuit over the Internet Archive’s “emergency” e-book lending practices during the COVID-19 pandemic has ended in a loss for the website and a victory for publishers. The lawsuit ...
A federal judge in New York found that the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to providing "universal access to all knowledge," had infringed on publishers' copyrights by running an unlicensed ...
The authors write "The Second Circuit’s decision may have significant downstream implications for other digital lending services, making it more difficult to operate absent licensing agreements with ...
After more than four years of litigation, a closely watched copyright case over the Internet Archive’s scanning and lending of library books is finally over after Internet Archive officials decided ...