The suit, brought in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and which also includes the publishers HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, contended the Internet Archive's controlled digital lending (CDL) system was illegal.
CDL is the same as traditional library book lending, in that libraries lend the books they own to one user at a time based on how many physical copies they own. Libraries pay for the books, so the publisher and author have been compensated, just as they always have been for library lending, observes Chris Freeland, director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive uses software to ensure its users are unable to copy or view books after the loan period is up.
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