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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]]
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