The AAP, Hachette, Wiley, PRH, and Harper Collins filed a brief with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals opposing the Internet Archive’s appeal of the copyright lawsuit they lost last year. District Court Judge John Koeltl’s verdict granting summary judgment just under a year ago was clear, overwhelming, and rooted in Second Circuit precedent. So the plaintiffs’ arguments are largely the same as the those that won them the case. Despite the IA’s assertion that they were doing it for the common good, their copying and distribution of in-copyright books — under the invented legal theory of controlled digital lending […]
