Professor Schwabach’s article on National Emergency Library and fair use published in the Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property
Schwabach, Aaron, , 18 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 187 (2021).
On March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive announced that it would create a National Emergency Library offering no-waitlist borrowing of all of the books in its collection. In effect, this allowed unlimited, if temporary, downloads of copyrighted works. Professor Schwabach’s article addresses the legality of this move under US copyright law.
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