Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, & Penguin Random House, with support from Association of American Publishers, filed suit against the Internet Archive and Does 1 through 5, in the Southern District Court of New York, on Monday, June 1, 2020.
Case Documents
- Complaint (June 1, 2020) and Appendix A (list of books)
Statements (Parties and Advocates)
- Press Release by the Association of American Publishers [associated with the plaintiffs] (June 1, 2020)
- Internet Archive
- Response by the Internet Archive (June 1, 2020)
- Submit Testimonials about the National Emergency Library, Internet Archive
- Statement, Public Knowledge
- Statement (Twitter), Association of Research Libraries
Press and Commentary
- “Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive”, Ars Technica (June 1, 2020)
- “Publishers Sue Internet Archive”, New York Times (June 1, 2020)
- “Publishers Sue Internet Archive over Open Library ebook lending”, The Verge (June 1, 2020)
- “Major Publishers Sue the Internet Archive’s Digital Library Program in the Midst of a Pandemic”, TechDirt, June 4, 2020
Legal Analysis
- “A White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books”, David R. Hansen and Kyle K. Courtney
- Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending (Sept. 2018)
- Michelle M. Wu, “Piece by Piece Review of Digitize-and-Lend Projects Through the Lens of Copyright and Fair Use”, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2017)
- Michelle M. Wu, “Building a Collaborative Digital Collection: A Necessary Evolution in Libraries”, Law Library Journal, v. 103, pp. 527-551 (2011)
- Michelle M. Wu, “Collaborative Academic Library Digital Collections Post-Cambridge University Press, HathiTrust, and Google Decisions on Fair Use”, Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, v.1, n.1 (2016)