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Internet Archive’s e-book lending is not fair use, appeals court rules (arstechnica.com)

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Publishers prevail despite lack of proof of market harm.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf

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[–] Evolith 1 points 2 months ago

This is unfortunate, especially the loss of access to half a million texts (and likely more). IA really helped me during plenty of undergrad classes when I needed access to the course text.

Would the "transformative" aspect be valid if IA added a public commentary/note-taking sidebar to their lended books?