2nd Circuit: Internet Archive’s Book Lending Infringed On Copyrights

(September 9, 2024, 2:45 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Internet Archive (IA) did not have the right to engage in a process it called “controlled digital lending” in which it digitized books and loaned them to individuals online, a panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held, affirming a New York federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in favor of several publishers....