A stipulated permanent injunction prevents the Internet Archive from offering unauthorized copies of books to the global public.
Catching up with PW's Andrew Albanese
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A federal court has approved a consent judgment in the long-running copyright infringement case filed by four publishers against the Internet Archive over its scanning and lending of library books.
The consent judgment provides for a stipulated permanent injunction preventing the Internet Archive from offering unauthorized copies of the Plaintiffs’ books to the global public.
“This cements what Judge Joh Koeltl found in his March 24 summary judgment: that the scanning and lending of the 127 books picked for this lawsuit constitutes copyright infringement, both in terms of the IA’s regular activities—its open library program—and in terms of the now discontinued National Emergency Library,” Publisher Weekly’s Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally.
Every Friday, CCC’s “Velocity of Content” features the editors and reporters of Publishers Weekly for an early look at what news publishers, editors, authors, agents, and librarians will be talking about when they return to work on Monday.
