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Saving Digital Libraries and the Internet Archive

By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, December 2023, Vol. 66 No. 12, Pages 11-12
10.1145/3625392
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In a case that calls to mind David vs. Goliath, the Internet Archive is appealing a decision by a New York district court judge in a suit brought by Hachette Book Group accusing the Internet Archive of copyright infringement by scanning and distributing copies of books online.

The suit, brought in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and which also includes the publishers HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, contended the Internet Archive's controlled digital lending (CDL) system was illegal. CDL is a model used by libraries to digitize materials in their collection and make them available for lending.

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