N.Y. Judge Gives Parties 1 Last Extension in Internet Archive Summary Judgment Case

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl for Southern New York in Manhattan granted his 10th deadline extension to Aug. 11 to the parties in the lawsuit in which four book publishers were granted summary judgment March 24 to thwart the Internet Archive from scanning print copies of physical books and lending the digital copies to users of IA’s website without the publishers’ permission (see 2303270006). The judge originally gave the parties an April 7 deadline to submit a proposal for the appropriate procedure to determine the judgment to be entered in the case. In each of the last several deadline extension requests, the parties told the judge they were “cautiously optimistic” there would be no further requests. Koeltl’s handwritten order Friday (docket 1:20-cv-04160) said there would be “no further extensions.”