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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i mean yeah if they are just scanning books and lending them out that violates the copywrite. is anyone surprised by this?
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