> It is not a politically motivated campaign to destroy books
You don't consider a legal dispute over copyright to be political?
You don't consider a legal dispute over copyright to be political?
Politics is a sufficiently broad idea that virtually all the machinery of society would qualify, but what's being spoken about here is the kind of politics that has to do with propaganda and information control. And indeed, this is not that.
There are many different usages of the word. The one in legal theory that, for example, is used by courts to exclude cases of a "political" nature is of course different from the one used in academia or else all cases would be forbidden!
I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just don't think there's much difference between "Politics" and politics, and filing a lawsuit is a clearly political act. Politicians write laws so that they can be used in court. Even more straightforward-seeming court cases, like murder trials, are political in that the government can't apply every law to every person all the time, so it has to make political decisions about what laws and what people to focus on.
In this case, a large organization is asking the court to interpret a law that effects a huge portion of American society and determines when and how information can be spread. In the US, the court's interpretation of a law is as important if not more important than the legislative process that created the law.
Copyright doesn't really control or distort the flow of media or ideas in a way that favors any particular politics.