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Publishers sue Internet Archive over scanning of books

By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
Published: June 1, 2020, 8:49am

NEW YORK — Four of the country’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favorites as Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon,” Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink” and Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”

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