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The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright fight over whether the Internet Archive can lend out digitized books.

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”

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