A legal blow to Internet Archive, controlled digital lending

What constitutes fair use may depend on the book, according to Alan Inouye, interim associate executive director of the American Library Association. Scanning and lending a digitized version of a decades-old book that has no publisher-issued ebook differs from doing the same with a recent New York Times best seller. “When you’re in a lawsuit, there’re only two sides. It is inherently adversarial,” Inouye said. “For those of us who are not involved in a lawsuit, the issue is … incredibly nuanced.”

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