<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The lawsuit is in the “cease and desist letter” stage at this point and will be filed in the UK. It was in the Guardian:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/22/internet-archives-ebook-loans-face-uk-copyright-challenge" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/22/internet-archives-ebook-loans-face-uk-copyright-challenge</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Canadian writers are likely to follow suit, as they say.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2019, at 4:07 PM, John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" class="">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">In article <<a href="mailto:13E24D46-C5E0-493F-808B-8E9D68EF2C82@bennett.com" class="">13E24D46-C5E0-493F-808B-8E9D68EF2C82@bennett.com</a>> you write:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">-=-=-=-=-=-<br class="">-=-=-=-=-=-<br class=""><br class="">Here’s a link to a story on the lawsuit:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://teleread.org/2017/12/19/the-internet-archives-openlibrary-project-violates-copyright-the-authors-guild-warns/" class="">https://teleread.org/2017/12/19/the-internet-archives-openlibrary-project-violates-copyright-the-authors-guild-warns/</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This article says the Authors Guild has been complaining but there's no suit. Is there some other article we missed?<br class=""><br class="">Given how thoroughly they got thrashed by the Hathitrust and Google<br class="">Books suits, I'm not surprised if they're gun shy now.<br class=""><br class="">FWIW, the National Writer's Union feels the same way, but can't afford<br class="">the cost of the suit. Ed Hasbrouck, head of their book subgroup (and<br class="">I suppose my shop steward) told me so over dinner last year.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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