Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL) to operate until the end of the national emergency. The NEL offered access to millions of digitized books on its database, including thousands of contemporary works still under copyright. Four major book publishers filed suit in the Southern District seeking to enjoin IA and its free library system from infringing the publishers’ copyrights for their books. This article discusses the case Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, where District Judge John Koeltl rejected all of IA defenses and granted the publishers’ motion for summary judgment to enjoin IA’s infringing activities.
April 10, 2023 at 02:00 PM
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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
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