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by geofft 2278 days ago
The blog post has a bit more information about what's going on: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...

These are scans that the Internet Archive already had that they had been making available through libraries on a check-out basis, which apparently is fine under fair use. Their claim now is, because of the national emergency, it's fair use to make these scans directly available to everyone.