> But when it comes to outright republishing of in-copyright printed works, the rights of creators and publishers need to be recognized.
'Republishing' is a bad faith description here. What IA is doing is not 'republishing' but offering 'Controlled Digital Lending' with time limited lending for scanned versions of items they posses digital copies of.
This is happening in the context of the same publishers refusing to sell lend-able digitial versions of books to libraries at the same price as physical books.
Book lending is a concept what these publishers are actively working to eradicate and this lawsuit is an important part of that.
'Republishing' is a bad faith description here. What IA is doing is not 'republishing' but offering 'Controlled Digital Lending' with time limited lending for scanned versions of items they posses digital copies of.
This is happening in the context of the same publishers refusing to sell lend-able digitial versions of books to libraries at the same price as physical books.
Book lending is a concept what these publishers are actively working to eradicate and this lawsuit is an important part of that.