In a ruling released on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s finding that the Internet Archive’s copying and lending of digital books infringes copyright. The court writes, “This appeal presents the following question: is it ‘fair use’ for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety and distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the […]
