John Mark Ockerbloom on Nostr: "Is it 'fair use' for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print ...
"Is it 'fair use' for a nonprofit
organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety and
distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one
owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding
publishers or authors? We conclude the
answer is no."
Full Second Circuit ruling against the Internet Archive: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10104144/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/?q=internet%20archive%20hachette
organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety and
distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one
owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding
publishers or authors? We conclude the
answer is no."
Full Second Circuit ruling against the Internet Archive: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10104144/hachette-book-group-inc-v-internet-archive/?q=internet%20archive%20hachette