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Internet Archive Won’t Pursue Supreme Court Relief Over Loss of Copyright Case to Book Publishers

By Alyssa Aquino
January 01, 2025

The Internet Archive has stopped defending its free digital library against a publisher-launched copyright lawsuit and announced that it won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the depository is a fair use of the plaintiff publishers’ copyrights.

The archive said in a blog post that it would honor an agreement with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and remove copyrighted material from the library at publishers’ requests, instead of fighting a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit requiring the materials removal. See, Hachette Book Group Inc. v. Internet Archive, 115 F.4th 163 (2d Cir. 2024).

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