McKenzie and colleague Petra Elliot created an audio sci-fi comedy called Night Terrace, whose (so far) two seasons became a bit of a cult hit. The Australian Society of Authors says it considers the archive a facilitator of copyright infringement, and advises Australian authors and illustrators to contact it to ask for their books to be removed.Īnd it’s not just ebooks. They are librarians, striving to serve their patrons online just as they have done for centuries in the brick-and-mortar world.”īut publishers say the archive has more than 3 million unauthorised in-copyright ebooks, including more than 33,000 of their commercially available titles, and does not pay the rights holders their dues. “The Internet Archive and the hundreds of libraries and archives that support it are not pirates or thieves. “They should not succeed,” said EFF legal director Corynne McSherry. The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), supporting the archive in the action, said publishers were seeking to “control how libraries may lend the books they own”. That’s why we are defending the rights of libraries to serve our patrons where they are, online.”Įarlier this month the archive applied for an order to summarily dismiss the court case. “We need libraries to be independent and strong, now more than ever, in a time of misinformation and challenges to democracy. “Should we stop libraries from owning and lending books? No,” said Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder and digital librarian. In 2006 it added ebook lending to that mission, working with global partners to digitise books under copyright or not.
In 2019 four big publishing houses, Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley and Penguin Random House, sued the archive, claiming it was violating their copyrights and cost them millions in lost sales by lending out their books.įor two decades the non-profit archive has been archiving websites for posterity (the ever-useful Wayback Machine is part of the project). The case of the Internet Archive – literally a legal case, currently chugging along in a New York district court – is usually presented as a legacy Goliath vs online David story. Petra Elliott and Ben McKenzie, creators of the Night Terrace audio drama.
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