Internet Archive Takes Court Against Book Publishers

From websites to videos, from software to photos, it protects internet history and more. The Internet ArchiveHe will defend himself in the courtroom today. Archive, one of the most important platforms of the Internet, was sued by book publishers.

Internet Archive will make an oral defense against publishers, including the French publishing giant Hachette, at the hearing, which will begin at 20:00 on March 21, in New York federal court. This case, according to many future of e-books will determine.

Why was The Internet Archive sued?

While all publishers are closing in the first months of the pandemic, Archive is for book lovers.National Emergency Library‘ initiated the initiative.

With this initiative, each e-book was made available to an unlimited number of people for two weeks. But this situation, including Hachette Big names like HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House He was annoyed and decided to initiate legal action.

But the publishers didn’t just target the National Emergency Library in their lawsuit. Doğdudan targeted the Internet Archive’s CDL system, which digitizes books and presents them as e-books. Unlike other e-books, CDL also adds books licensed by publishers to the library.

Plaintiff publishers therefore refer to The Internet Archive as “deliberate digital piracy on an industrial scale‘ accuses. It is stated that the Archive illegally scans and adds books to its servers, and does not make any payments to publishers and authors.

This lawsuit to be heard in the USA will also be the first legal test in the country for the CDL system. Plaintiffs also filed the CDL as “a paradigm invented far beyond copyright lawdefines as ”.