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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
A big blow to the Internet Archive.
In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.” The Internet Archive has long offered a system called the Open Library, where users can “check out” digital scans of physical books. Last year, a federal judge ruled that the Internet Archive doesn’t have the right to scan and lend out books in the same way a library would.
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