When the Internet Archive granted to itself in late March emergency powers to make a collection of 1.3 million self-scanned ebooks available for unlimited downloading around the world during the pandemic, it dared — or invited — publishers and authors to sue. This morning, AAP member publishers Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House and Wiley have indeed sued the Internet Archive for “willful mass copyright infringement” in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York. As the AAP says in a press release announcing the suit, “The sheer scale of IA’s infringement described in the complaint — […]
