A group of leading textbook publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, have sued Library Genesis over staggering copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims ...

Authors whose works were included in a $1.5 billion piracy settlement with the AI developer Anthropic can start filing claims ...

Library Genesis is now the subject of a massive lawsuit regarding copyright infringement. It is reportedly not the first lawsuit the site has received. Library Genesis Named in a Lawsuit and Was ...

The settlement works out to about $3,000 per work that Anthropic downloaded from certain pirated libraries for copyright ...

On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the ...

Trump, DOGE, and big tech companies like OpenAI and Meta don't care about free access to books unless it benefits their AI. reading time 4 minutes Our access to free literature is being abused from ...

A new project has just launched with the goal of preserving all human knowledge. The problem? It’s illegal. The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of ...

As Anthropic agrees to a $1.5 billion settlement, one author’s search for his own books on pirate sites reveals the personal ...

The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...

While U.S. authorities were taking down the free and popular (and potentially illegal) e-book download site Z-Library, and arrest those affiliated with it this past month, internet archivers were ...

Sept 14 (Reuters) - A group of major textbook publishers on Thursday sued file-sharing service Library Genesis in Manhattan federal court for what they described as copyright infringement on a ...