Last week attorneys defending the Internet Archive in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by four AAP publishers asked Judge John Koetl for a conference on their request that looks ridiculously expansive on its face. They want the publishers ordered to produce monthly sales for the past decade on all of their books, in granular detail by sales channel, and insist there isn’t “any particular burden in retrieving the information requested.” In their reply, the attorney for the publishers notes that, “Plaintiffs have produced a vast wealth of detailed sales and related financial data concerning the Works in Suit, totaling over […]
