Publishers Win Ruling Against Online Library’s Lending of Digital Books
A federal judge ruled Friday that a nonprofit online platform violated the copyrights of four leading publishers by lending digitally scanned copies of their books without permission.U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan rejected arguments by the organization Internet Archive that it was making fair use of the copyright-protected books in its possession by allowing online readers to borrow digital copies, one person at a time. The case was being closely watched as a test of copyrights and library lending in a…