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Equitable Access to the Law Got Stronger: 2023 Year in Review

SAN FRANCISCO-A cartel of major publishing companies must not be allowed to criminalize fair-use library lending, the Internet Archive argued in an appellate brief filed today.
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) non-profit library which preserves and provides access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form.....


This Cyber News was published on www.eff.org. Publication date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:13:05 +0000


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