Information for Social Change (Mar 2021)
Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive
Abstract
During the coronavirus/ Covid-19 crisis, the Open Library responded to the closing of physical libraries by lifting the 'one user at a time' restriction on its 'Controlled digital lending' to create the 'National Emergency Library'. The lawsuit in question is ‘Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive (1:20-cv-04160) District Court, S.D. New York’. The lawsuit challenges the ‘Open Library’ provided by the Internet Archive, which has been available since 2006. The challenge is related to the now discontinued service, the ‘National Emergency Library’, which was put in place as a response to the Coronavirus/Covid-19 crisis.
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