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> On Friday, a US district judge ruled in favor of book publishers suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement.

> Publishers suing-Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wiley-had alleged that the Open Library provided a way for libraries to avoid paying e-book licensing fees that generate substantial revenue for publishers.

> In court documents, IA argued that rather than cutting into publishers' library e-book licensing revenues, the Open Library helped promote books, and that practice ended up generating more licensing revenues for publishers in recent years, as thousands of IA borrowers widely recommended books they read. IA also argued that OverDrive checkouts did not increase when IA stopped lending the disputed books in the lawsuit.

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