Publishers Sue Internet
Archive for free access to E-books
Digitisation has made access to
information much easier and more convenient for the public. Now, with pandemic
forcing the public to stay home, the demand of online content or digital
information has reached new heights, especially for the book readers. Even
though digitisation has comforted the public but at the same time it has
troubled IP holders.
One such instance is the recent
lawsuit filed by the 4 major publishing houses, namely Hachette Book Group,
INC., Harpercollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons, INC., and Penguin
Random House LLC, against the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement
by way of creating a “National Emergency Library” (NEL) in view of the current
Covid-19 pandemic.
The case was filed as the NEL
was to temporarily suspend any wait list for borrowing e-books by the
users/consumers and provide copies of work indefinitely to the reader in the
times of Covid-19.
Further making copies of works
and putting them on a platform to be available for download, forms a clear
infringement of copyrights irrespective of the intention.
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager - Library
Khaitan & Co
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