Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2023
Controlled digital lending ruling
A federal court ruled against the Internet Archive in a case concerning its lending of digitized books, finding that the challenged practices infringed publishers' copyrights.
2020
National Emergency Library copyright dispute
Publishers and authors criticized the temporary lending expansion as an unauthorized distribution of copyrighted books, leading to litigation and the program's early closure.