Here's a look at how the @internetarchive plans to defend their lending practices ahead of their June 28th appeals court hearing in front of the Second Circuit after revealing that they had to remove over 500,000 books from their systems. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
Their blog post about it is also worth a read: https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/
Also @mmasnick with some thoughts on this: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/
#InternetArchive #libraries #library #books #print #digital #preservation
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