Publishers
Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) are
shocked the
National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ)
has announced plans to handover hundreds of thousands of
books from its collection to the notorious
Internet
Archive.
The Internet Archive’s scanning and
online distribution of books has been condemned
internationally as piracy on a massive scale. (1)
This activity by the Archive is the subject of a major
lawsuit by international publishers, representing authors
from around the world, and supported by authors’ groups.
(2)
Our
organisations represent thousands of authors and dozens of
publishers from across Aotearoa New Zealand. In recent years