Publishers Ask 2nd Circuit To Find Internet Archive’s EBook Lending Infringing

( March 25, 2024, 8:05 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The “wholly manufactured” practice of “controlled digital lending” in which Internet Archive (IA) digitizes books and lends them online “is radical and unlawful,” book publishers tell the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in their appellee brief, seeking affirmance of a trial court’s finding that the practice infringed their copyrights....