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A judge sided with publishers in a lawsuit over the Internet Archive's online library

The nonprofit, which has a mission to provide "universal access to all knowledge," says it will appeal the ruling.
Books line the shelves at the Rice University Library in April 2022 in Houston.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a group of book publishers who sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for scanning and lending digital copies of copyrighted books in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

The four publishing houses — Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John

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