Wall Street Journal

Online-Books Lawsuit Tests Limits of Libraries in Digital Age

On March 20, US District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books, in a case that raises novel questions about digital-library rights and the reach of copyright law that protects the work of writers and publishers. Nonprofit organization Internet Archive created the digital books, building its collection by scanning physical book copies in its possession.