# Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/appeals-court-seems-lost-on-how-internet-archive-harms-publishers/
- Published: 2024-07-03T09:30:27-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image credit: mitay20 | iStock / Getty Images Plus. Article by Ashley Belanger. Ars Technica &#8211; June 28, 2024. The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library&#8217;s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that the archive&#8217;s lending violated copyright law. In the weeks ahead of IA&#8217;s efforts to appeal that ruling, IA was forced to remove 500,000 books from [&#8230;] Click here to view original web page at arstechnica.com
