Category: library

Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library to close early amid lawsuit

Post author By Randall
Post date June 11, 2020
Categories In ebooks, gear, internet archives, lawsuits, library, national emergency library, News, Tech

[ad_1] The lawsuit, filed in a New York court by publishers Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Penguin Random House LLC, alleges IA has no legal rights to distribute the books. It seeks a declaration that the IA is committing copyright infringement, injunctions to stop the IA from […]

Book publishers sue Internet Archive for allegedly enabling piracy

Post author By Randall
Post date June 1, 2020
Categories In authors, books, copyright, damages, gear, hachette book group, harpercollins, internet archive, john wiley & sons, lawsuit, library, national emegency library, New York, News, open library, penguin random house, piracy, publishers, Tech

[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 […]

New Yorkers are losing the Public Library’s free movie streaming

Post author By Randall
Post date June 25, 2019
Categories In Entertainment, Internet, kanopy, library, services, streaming, Tech

[ad_1] In 2017, the New York Public Library (NYPL) struck a deal with Kanopy allowing any library cardholder to use the streaming service for free. That gave library users access to 30,000 movies including recent hits like Moonlight, Lady Bird and The Florida Project. It also offered access to harder to find movies which were […]