How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publish

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The Register: How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

The central question in the case, as summarized during oral arguments by Judge John Koeltl, is: does a library have the right to make a copy of a book that it otherwise owns and then lend the ebook it has made without a license from the publisher to patrons of the library?