The Internet Archive, an American non-profit organization, suffered a major defeat in copyright litigation that book publishers asserted against it regarding the National Emergency Library (NEL) project.

In March 2020, at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL), an online library of around 1.4 million books, many of which are copyright-protected ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), rejecting a First Amendment challenge brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Section 1201 prohibits circumventing technological protections on copyrighted works and distributing tools for such circumvention. It also empowers the Librarian of Congress to grant temporary exemptions through ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, holding that they violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits the U.S. government from conducting "unreasonable searches and seizures." Geofence warrants allow law enforcement to request information about all subscribers located in a specific geographic area during a given timeframe, to identify potential suspects of ...