Internet Archive Files Response to Lawsuit Emphasizing Need for Access to Information - SPARC

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-08-11

Summary:

"While the demand for digital access to books skyrockets during the global pandemic, the Internet Archive maintains that its practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is more vital than ever.

On July 28, the San Francisco-based nonprofit filed a response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the widespread practice of CDL. Scanning a copy of a print book and lending it one digital copy at a time to one reader at a time is how Internet Archives lending has worked for nearly nine years, writes its founder Brewster Kahle in a blog about the issue...."

Link:

https://sparcopen.org/news/2020/internet-archive-files-response-to-lawsuit-emphasizing-need-for-access-to-information/

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oa.new oa.litigation oa.copyright oa.usa oa.ia oa.nel oa.humanitarian oa.objections oa.debates oa.aap oa.hatchett_book oa.harpercollins oa.wiley oa.penguin_random_house oa.cdl

Date tagged:

08/11/2020, 10:40

Date published:

08/11/2020, 06:40