Publishers Blast Internet Archive's 'Extraordinary' Demand for Sales Data - Publishers Weekly

Today, Panzer made  a stop at the Publishers Weekly site. With a little digging in the posts he found one about the ongoing court case against the Internet Archive. Panzer already told about the case earlier this year.

 

A waste of time and money.

According to the post by Andrew Albanese, the lawyers for the publishers suing the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement have filed a response to IA's lawyers' demand for 10 years of monthly book sales data from the publishers. The lawsuit against IA for copyright infringement is because IA takes hardcover books, scans them and then "loans" the "ebooks" to people and also gives copies to libraries. IA says they need the 10 years of monthly sales data to prove they're not harming publishers' books sales by what they're doing. The publishers' lawyers say gathering 10 years of monthly sales data is extraordinary and unwarranted and has never been allowed in a lawsuit before. They also say the sales data has nothing to do with the case.

 

Panzer says, "Hmm ... Internet Archive wants 10 years of monthly sales data on 500,000 books? Maybe the judge should order IA to pay for the cost of gathering all that data."

 

Note: "This is a long post. Bring a quart of lemonade, two chocolate chip cookies (biscuits) and a brownie for today's reading. If you plan to follow the links in the post, bring a gallon of lemonade, a baker's dozen chocolate chip cookies (biscuits), six brownies, and a sleeping bag for a nap in the middle.

 

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