why the world's biggest online library is in court over digital book lending

  • Written by: Joanne Gray, Lecturer in Digital Cultures at The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Earlier this month, the Internet Archive asked a US court to end a lawsuit filed against it by four large book publishers.

The Internet Archive is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1996 that lends digital copies of books, music, movies and other digitised content to the public. It aims to support people with print disabilities,...

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