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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'm writing purely about scanned books.
The IA is sharing scanned books, in copyright, to the public both via Open Library and their regular downloads.
The Open Library case was about violation of the rights of copyrtight holders, basically IA sharing a copy without the right holders permission. Mostly that is via Open Library. They have been accepting uploads of scans and doing their own scans for over twenty years. They have consistently abused copyright of printed material.
They've only taken notice of big corporates over non-book media.
That's why the publishers brought the court case.
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Read the ruling. It's pretty clear that the case is discussing the Open Library and controlled digital lending as it's about violating copyright for 100+ specific books from the 4 publishers made available in Open Library.
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Internet Archive allows for user uploaded content. The book you linked is exactly that which is why the "scanner" is "Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3". You can find pirated material on YouTube too.