Oral Argument Set in Internet Archive Copyright Case - Publishers Weekly

Today Panzer is feeling better, so our recovered kitty pilot made a trip to the Publishers Weekly site. With hardly any digging at all in the posts, he found one about the copyright infringement court case against the Internet Archive.

 

According to the post by Andrew Albanese, the attorneys for the publishers and the attorneys for the Internet Archive (IA) will present their oral arguments to the judge beginning on March 20. The case involves the IA scanning and "lending" books without the knowledge of or payments to publishers and authors. The IA says they are a library and therefore can do it. The publishers say the IA isn't a library, it's a piracy site. Now, the judge gets to decide.

 

It still hurts where I got that shot.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... Can anybody just get up one morning and say, 'I'm a library'?"

 

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for your reading selection.

 

To read the post tootle over to Internet Archive Copyright Infringement Case