The Verge reports: A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the I...

Because copyright owners aren't making money off it.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    So it sounds like they're not required to pay a fine at least?

  • DoghouseCharlie [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I'm surprised they got away with it this long. What I don't get is why you needed to "rent" them to begin with if they weren't licensed? That always annoyed me, I just wanted to download the damn scan without going through that bs.