Internet Archive ‘in Compliance’ With All Its Injunction ‘Obligations,’ Says Chair

The Internet Archive “is in compliance with all of its obligations” under the Aug. 11 permanent injunction imposed by U.S. District Judge John Koelti for Southern New York in Manhattan, said a signed declaration Monday (docket 1:20-cv-04160) by IA founder and Chair Brewster Kahle. The judge’s “narrowly tailored” injunction bars IA from scanning print copies of physical books and lending the digital copies to users of IA’s website without the publishers’ permission, so long as those physical books also have an e-book component (see 2308150012). In Kahle’s role as IA’s digital librarian, “I oversee the Internet Archive’s digital lending library,” said his declaration. IA’s library was at the heart of its copyright infringement dispute with the four book publishers that was resolved in the publishers’ favor.