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michaelt | on: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
I don't think it's quite that simple.

I can't just scrape nytimes.com and re-host it on my own website legally - that's clear copyright infringement. Google news quoting article excerpts was legally controversial, as was their book search function, and their archive option.

I always assumed website owners were just sorta turning a blind eye to archive.org because (a) it's slow and (b) it doesn't get indexed in google

protocolture | parent | next
Right but thats not whats happening here.

IA is physically holding a physical copy of the book, and then on a 1 at a time basis, allowing digital access to that physical book.

It would be like, purchasing a copy of the new york times, scanning it, and letting people online read it one at a time. Which would be perfectly legal except for the scanning and online. It paints the law as insane, not IA as flagrant copying.

xhkkffbf | parent
I'm very happy about this decision about CDL and I'm glad that the IA got smacked for being so obnoxious and anti-artist. But I'm also willing to turn a blind eye to the archive and the way back machine because they're useful and not really competition.