The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

A US federal appeals court rules that the Internet Archive’s ebook lending program does not have the same rights as a library to scan and lend out #ebooks.

#internetarchive #digital

theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958

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Google fell into a similar pitfall when they started scanning the books in the late 2000s

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