Publishers beat Internet Archive as judge rules e-book lending violates copyright

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ruled in favor of book publishers suing the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement. The IA’s Open Library project—which partners with libraries to scan print books in their collections and offer them as lendable e-books—had no right to reproduce 127 of the publishers’ books named in the suit, judge John Koeltl decided. ”But Koeltl said there was “nothing transformative” about IA’s digital lending practices—which he decided “violated the publishers’ reproduction” and “display rights”—in part because IA’s “derivative works” were made available to the general public without providing “criticism, commentary, or information

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