More than 750 people have signed a Society of Authors (SoA) letter demanding the Internet Archive stops its Open Library project lending scanned books online in the UK.
The SOA is threatening legal action after penning an open letter last month, accusing the San Francisco-based Internet Archive of breaching copyright by lending scanned copies of books on the site. The practice, known as Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), has come under fire from authors' groups in several countries including the US.
Author Tracy Chevalier and poet Wendy Cope are among the 769 people to have signed the letter since it was written last month, with more signing every day.