Following the filing of a lawsuit by four major publishers at the beginning of June over the Internet Archive’s “willful mass copyright infringement,” the IA will at least “close” their self-proclaimed National Emergency Library two weeks earlier than originally announced, on June 16. “We moved up our schedule because, last Monday, four commercial publishers chose to sue Internet Archive,” which is widely considered to have no viable legal defense for the uncontrolled digital lending they initiated in late March. They will try to defend their self-invented practice of controlled digital lending — the core principles of which they violated at […]