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 ...

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 ...

For many students around the world, the illicit book-sharing website Library Genesis has been a lifeline of free primary texts and scientific knowledge. It is such a widely accepted resource for free ...

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 ...

Although sharing copyrighted materials online without permission may be illegal, many people still defend the practice, especially when it comes to the dissemination of academic knowledge. Library ...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has awarded STM publisher Elsevier $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, ...

Library Genesis is having a severe outage, and for the past week, no ebook or digital textbook downloads have been working. This is a severe blow to students who cannot afford to buy overpriced ...

A consortium of prominent US science and education publishers is taking legal action against the infamous online repository known as Library Genesis, or more commonly, LibGen, The Register reported.

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 ...