YESTERDAY Locus Magazine (where Cory Doctorow occasionally writes) wrote that “Internet Archive (IA) has elected not to further appeal its loss in the copyright infringement case upheld by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in September.
“Now that the case is settled, IA will remove infringing books from their “lending library” and pay an undisclosed monetary sum to the plaintiff publishers, which the Association of American Publishers says should “substantially” cover the attorney fees and court costs.”
Considering what happened to SCOTUS (seating Justices take bribes from billionaires and face no consequences for it), it’s not hard to understand why IA’s lawyers decided to spend no more money on appeals.
So it’s a huge financial blow to the Internet Archive, which already relies on donations and had to deal with a recent crisis (DDoS and data breach).
— source techrights.org | Dec 07, 2024