Within a few days of the announcement that libraries, schools and colleges across the nation woowning and lending digital books, challenging the very idea of what a library is in the digital world. This lawsuit stands in contrast to some academic publishers who initially express concerns about the NEL, but ultimately decidto work with us to provide access to people cut off from their physical schools and libraries. We hope that similar cooperation is possible here, and the publishers call off their costly assault.

Controll digital lending is how many libraries have been providing access to digitiz books for nine years.  Controlle digital lending is a legal framework, develop by copyright experts, where one reader at a time can read a digitiz copy of a legally own library book. The digitiz book is protect by the same digital protections that publishers use for the digital offerings on their own sites. Many libraries, including the Internet Archive, have adopt this system since 2011 to leverage their investments in older print books in an increasingly digital world.

We are now all Internet-bound and floo with misinformation and disinformation—to fight these we all ne access to books more than ever. To get there we ne collaboration between libraries, authors, booksellers, and publishers.

Let’s build a digital system that works.

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Four commercial publishers fil a complaint about the Internet Archive’s lending of digitized books

Post on June 1, 2020 by Brewster Kahle

This morning, we were disappoint to read that four commercial publishers are suing the Internet Archive.