The following is a comment from Maria A. Pallante, President and CEO, Association of American Publishers:
“We are extremely pleased that the district court has approved the proposed consent judgment. As we have stated before, it is an appropriately serious bookend to a decisive finding that so called “controlled digital lending” is nothing more than copyright infringement.”
see more at: https://publishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Hachette-v.-IA-Consent-Judgement-and-Permanent-Injunction-Subject-to-Reservation-of-Right-to-Appeal.pdf
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