The Internet Archive is facing a lawsuit brought by Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House. The plaintiffs allege that the defendant engaged in willful mass copyright infringement by scanning print books without any license or payment to authors or publishers, uploading these illegally scanned books to its servers, and distributing verbatim digital copies of the books in whole via public-facing websites. The plaintiffs argue that IA's actions grossly exceed legitimate library services, do violence to the Copyright Act, and constitute willful digital piracy on an industrial scale. The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief to prevent IA from continuing to make copyrighted works available without authorization and to recover damages for the harm caused by IA's actions. The lawsuit involves three publishing companies who claim that IA's actions have caused them economic and author relations damages, primarily felt in New York where three of the plaintiffs have their principal place of business. The plaintiffs seek to stop IA from continuing to make copyrighted works available without authorization and to recover damages for the harm caused by IA's actions.