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On June 1, 2020, Hachette Book Group and other publishers, including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Wiley, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for the National Emergency Library. [9] [10] The plaintiffs argued that the practice of CDL was illegal and not protected by the doctrine of fair use. [11]
In 2015, Elsevier filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub, in Elsevier et al. v. Sci-Hub et al., at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. [32] Library Genesis (LibGen) was also a defendant in the case, [33] [34] [14] which may be based in either the Netherlands [34] or in Russia. [35]
Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust (2014) was a following case related to HathiTrust, a project by the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the University of California systems that combined their digital library collections with those of Google's Book Search. The HathiTrust case differed in two primary factors which were raised by the ...
Library Genesis (shortened to LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, ... As a result of Elsevier's lawsuit, ...
The digitization by Google has been the subject of a separate lawsuit. HTDL's main objective is the long-term preservation of the collection. Member libraries may order replacement copies of works if "(1) the member already owned an original copy, (2) the member's original copy is lost, destroyed, or stolen, and (3) a replacement copy is ...
The RIAA has apparently in the past been revealed to and may have admitted to the practice of spoofing, deliberately flooding P2P networks with "junk music". [23] [24] A further reference to such activity was discovered when computer software and source code along with emails were stolen from US Company "Media Defender"; [25] their software was designed to facilitate "interdiction" on all the ...
A class action lawsuit filed in June 2023 against ChatGPT developer OpenAI, led by authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, alleged that the company used shadow libraries to source training data for their large language model. [25] [26] [27] Meta has also been alleged to have used data from from shadow libraries to train its AI model.
LimeWire was widely used; in 2006, when the lawsuit was filed, it had almost 4 million users per day. [4] LimeWire is a program that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology, which permits users to share digital files via an Internet-based network known as Gnutella; most of these were MP3 files containing copyrighted audio recordings.