The blog post has a bit more information about what's going on: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-

The blog post has a bit more information about what's going on: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ 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.