The recent ruling against the Internet Archive (IA) in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case signifies more than just a legal defeat for the IA – it raises important questions about online sharing and public access to literature.

The core of this case revolves around Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), a practice by which the Internet Archive lends out digital copies of books it physically owns, one at a time, to a single user. It has become a battleground for copyright law, with publishers like Hachette leading the charge to shut down such efforts.

Full article at The Booksellers’ website. Date of publication: 09/10/2024.