I have been saying for four years that the book publishers suing the Internet Archive over its digital lending program had a strong case.
Today's decision from the Second Circuit upholding the publishers' win cleans up some of the district court's worst language (that this wholly nonprofit lending was "commercial”) but the bottom line comes as no surprise.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf
Publishers call online library “willful digital piracy…
Ars Technica@jtlg wondering if we need to land parts of archive.org in civil society