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#+title: ia lawsuit

#+date: <2020-08-02>

The four big publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin
Random House are still pursuing Internet Archive.

#+begin_quote
  [Their] lawsuit does not stop at seeking to end the practice of
  Controlled Digital Lending. These publishers call for the destruction
  of the 1.5 million digital books that Internet Archive makes available
  to our patrons. This form of digital book burning is unprecedented and
  unfairly disadvantages people with print disabilities. For the blind,
  ebooks are a lifeline, yet less than one in ten exists in accessible
  formats. Since 2010, Internet Archive has made our lending library
  available to the blind and print disabled community, in addition to
  sighted users. If the publishers are successful with their lawsuit,
  more than a million of those books would be deleted from the
  Internet's digital shelves forever.
#+end_quote

[[https://blog.archive.org/2020/07/29/internet-archive-responds-to-publishers-lawsuit/][Libraries
lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds
to publishers' lawsuit]]