The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library — A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers

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A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. The judge dismissed all of the IA’s Fair Use argumentsBut Koetl wrote that any “alleged benefits” from the Internet Archive’s library “cannot outweigh the market harm to the publishers,” declares that “there is nothing transformative about [Internet Archive’s] copying and unauthorized lending,” and that copying these books doesn’t provide “criticism, commentary, or information about them. According to data obtained during the trial, the Internet Archive currently hosts around 70,000 e-book “borrows” a day

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