Not Mundane or Pointless.
The first round of lawsuits and inevitable appeals has gone the four publishers who filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Internet Archive. A non-profit organization whose site, archive.org
is home to millions of books (both ebooks and scanned to digital), video, audio, images and more.
A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library.
Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more than create “derivative works,” and so would have needed authorization from the books’ copyright holders — the publishers — before lending them out through its National Emergency Library program.
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The first decision in the Internet Archive lawsuit has been reached
https://www.google.com/search?q=internet+archive&oq=internet+archive&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l4j69i60j69i61j69i60.2824j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Internet Archive is a repository for more than ebooks, fully digital or scanned to digital. It also house numerous other types of data, including videos and audio.
Edit: I’ve purposely left out many details to be as non-partisan about this as possible.