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Internet Archive lawsuit loss may determine digital libraries’ future

Internet Archive lawsuit loss may determine digital libraries’ future

The online lending library Internet Archive, which has operated for over twenty-six years out of San Francisco, lost a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit on March 24 against a coalition of major publishing houses. The publishing houses sued in June 2020 over the Internet Archive’s digital distribution of copyrighted books. The case was tried in the Southern District Court of New York under Judge John G. Koeltl, who sided with the publishing houses.