Just a few days ago Internet Archive released this article on their blog:
"Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit"
along with the
defense's response, July 28, 2020 (PDF):
Quote:
The Internet Archive does what libraries have always done: buy, collect, preserve, and share our common culture. In furtherance of that mission, the Internet Archive has received grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the federal government’s Institute of Museum and Library Services, among many other sources. Many libraries and archives, including the Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and smaller community libraries like the Allen County Public Library trust the Internet Archive to digitize books and other materials in their collections in order to preserve physical texts and to facilitate public access. The Internet Archive is part of a network of libraries around the world—each of which is using digital technologies to meet the many challenges of serving patrons with diverse needs and differing abilities and to ensure that the growing storehouse of human creativity is not lost because no one has the capacity to preserve it.
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and here's Techdirt's article about it:
"Internet Archive Responds To Publishers Lawsuit: Libraries Lend Books, That's What We Do"