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Hitting the Books: How to huck a human into low Earth orbit

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Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy

[ad_1] The plaintiffs argue that the IA has no legal rights to distribute the books, which it scans and uploads to its servers, via Open Library or the National Emergency Library. The plaintiffs go as far as charging the Archive with piracy. The lawsuit seeks a declaration that the IA is committing copyright infringement, injunctions […]