That's right. And when compelled to remove copyrighted works by living authors, Kahle made claims equating the lawsuits with "digital book burnings."

If Ray Bradbury were still alive, he would have likely have rejected this claim. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), which Bradbury was long associated with, and many major writers still belong to, has been critical of the IA's actions from the beginning:

The Internet Archive justified these actions based on an unproven and dubious legal argument called “Controlled Digital Lending” which supposedly would allow the Archive to make and distribute a single digital copy of a donated physical book in their storehouse as long as they “control” its distribution. It was and is SFWA’s understanding that this is not library lending, but direct infringement of authors’ copyrights. As if this wasn’t bad enough, using the Coronavirus pandemic as an excuse, the Archive has created the “National Emergency Library” and removed virtually all controls from the digital copies so that they can be viewed and downloaded by an unlimited number of readers. The uncontrolled distribution of copyrighted material is an additional blow to authors who are already facing long-term disruption of their income because of the pandemic. Uncontrolled Digital Lending lacks any legal argument or justification.

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/04/08/infringement-alert-national-...