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There’s More to Copyright Than Financial Incentives, Internet Archive Argues in Court
(torrentfreak.com)
The Internet Archive is doubling down on its position that its digital lending library service operates under the bounds of fair use. Major publishers assert that digitizing books without appropriate licensing amounts to infringement but IA counters that the practice is in the public interest. It also fits copyright's ultimate purpose; to promote the broad public availability of literature and other arts.
Love how they go after a resource that companies have had to use in the past when they've lost copies of their own data.