Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Book Publishers Nears Climax

Publishers including Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House have sued the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its ‘Open Library,’ which they claim is equivalent to a pirate site; however, the Archive argues that making a digital copy of physical books ‘transforms’ the work and qualifies as fair use, with numerous benefits to the public, and that there is no evidence copyright holders suffer financially from the Archive’s activities.

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