The free online library the Internet Archive (IA), was sued successfully by book publishers last year. The Internet Archive’s collection of titles has recently decreased by roughly 500,000.
Internet Archive is now appealing in an attempt to overturn the previous court’s ruling and win access back by persuading the US Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit that IA’s restricted digital lending of its physical books should be recognized as fair use in accordance with copyright laws. According to a court filing from April, IA plans to contend that the publishers lack proof that the open library’s lending has negatively impacted the e-book market and that copyright law would be better served by permitting IA’s lending rather than prohibiting it.
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