April 9, 2004
Scholar Sues for Free Online Access to Out-of-Print Books
A prominent legal scholar has filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to allow old books and films to be placed in Internet archives where anyone can use them freely.
The scholar, Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor and cyberspace theorist, is challenging copyright law on behalf of two Internet archives that scholars use and are helping to develop.
The case pits the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library of audio material, books, films, software, and Web
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