• Grimpen@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    During the pandemic, Internet Archive very publicly announced they were relaxing their one physical copy per digitally loaned copy.

    I think of they had maintained their 1:1 CDL method, the publishers would still be uncomfortable to be the one to sue first, especially since there was a decent argument and IA would have been pretty sympathetic.

    Their pandemic policy was effectively not substantially different from a shadow library., and just set up a slam dunk case for the publishers.