Court to Internet Archive: You Can't Turn Printed Books Into Online E-Book Loans This week's ruling halts the archive’s 'Controlled Digital Lending' program of loaning scanned copies of printed books.

As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by about 500,000 ...

The dispute started in the early days of the pandemic when the organization expanded access to a free online collection of books. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco When libraries across the ...

The online digital library Internet Archive today lost its appeal to lend out scanned e-books without the approval of publishers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the ...

In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now. By David Streitfeld David ...