Internet Archive to Close National Emergency Library Due to Publishers’ Lawsuit
The Internet Archive will close its National Emergency Library Tuesday rather than June 30 due to a lawsuit from publishers (see 2006010026), IA said Wednesday. The lawsuit is broader than the NEL, IA said. It “stands in contrast to some…
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academic publishers who initially expressed concerns about the NEL, but ultimately decided to work with us to provide access to people cut off from their physical schools and libraries,” founder Brewster Kahle wrote. “We hope that similar cooperation is possible here, and the publishers call off their costly assault.” The NEL “was an enormously important program that acted as a short-term band-aid to alleviate real, documented needs during a time of national crisis, providing access to books when library collections were inaccessible,” Public Knowledge Policy Counsel Meredith Rose said. The Association of American Publishers didn’t comment.