Internet Archive Open Library lawsuit moves forward; arguments set for November 2021 - TeleRead

Panzer hasn't been to the TeleRead site in a long time, so he decided to make a stop there today. With no digging at all our inquisitive kitty boy found a post about the Internet Archive Open Library. Panzer's last update on the publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive (IA) was when IA asked the publishers to drop the suit and negotiate.

According to the post by Chris Meadows, in the copyright infringement lawsuit by four publishers filed against the Internet Archive (IA) the judge has agreed to a one year discovery process. This means both sides of the lawsuit will have one year to gather information and put their cases together. The suit should be ready for arguments in November 2021. The publishers filed the lawsuit after Internet Archive refused to stop making scanned copies of copyrighted books and letting people download the scanned copies. IA said it was legal because they were a library. Instead, publishers said IA is a pirate site because the site doesn't have the publishers' or authors' permission to copy the books and neither are paid for the copies. There are links to previous TeleRead posts, to a Publishers Weekly post and a The Digital Reader post about the lawsuit included in the TeleRead post.

Repeat after me: "I will not steal your book."

Panzer says, "It's a long post with all the links, but it explains what's happening and why the publishers filed the lawsuit against IA."

Note: This is a very long post. Bring a glass of ice tea and a  large muffin for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links, bring two thermoses of tea, 12 muffins, 12 chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) and 12 brownies.

To read the post tootle over to Internet Archive Open Library
To read Panzer's previous post tootle over to Internet Archive Lawsuit