Unsurprisingly, the current status of the #internetarchive case has reached "libraries are bad, actually" in court. It was always a bad idea to litigate library lending, and this may just set precedent to tear down the whole thing.
Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free
What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn’t bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library? You’d probably think they w…