another tldr: Internet Archive thought scanning a copyrighted book was good enough to meet the transformative requirement for Fair Use and thus they could lend out digital copies at will
edit: Throw back to 4 days ago Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”
b-b-but there were no damages
… It is also irrelevant to assessing market harm ...
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A vidya rental company called consoleclassix did the same thing and appears to have won
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22732991
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It's different - the Internet Archive arbitrarily decided to remove those restrictions during the lockdown, basically lending out their 1 copy of a book to infinite people. Not entirely sure how they thought they'd get away with it tbh
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Darn, they're fricking r-slurred, how can you borrow something which you're allowing to be replicated infinitely without any licence or physical counterpart.
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