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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The shadow library Libgen (Library Genesis), which hosts numerous pirated books and journals that internet users can download at no cost, has been sued by a group of academic publishers over copyright ...

Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models. Against the ...

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can read an analysis about LibGen and its contents here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool ...

Meta faces growing legal pressure over allegations it used pirated content from Library Genesis to train its language model, Llama. The controversy emerges as part of a class-action lawsuit where ...