Internet Archive dealt legal blow in copyright infringement lawsuit.
A federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers and offered them online. The lawsuit had also targeted the Internet Archive’s Open Library for “willful mass copyright infringement” and a concept known as controlled digital lending, which it dubbed “an invented paradigm that is well outside of copyright law.” The case issued a verdict on the limits of digital libraries, though the Internet Archive plans to appeal the decision.
