That blows. Almost as bad as piracy.
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What IA has done that's pissed people off is advance a novel legal theory that if they own a physical book and they scan it they can unilaterally decide to make it available for borrowing under terms they set, without asking permission or paying more money to the author
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What they've done RECENTLY that's pissed people off MORE is to unilaterally relax their lending restrictions (allow infinite copies of a file to be borrowed at once) because of the virus, again without asking or paying anybody
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Right. So by this position, the libraries should be able to lend out these ebooks, up to the volume licensed, through their back end provider, whomever they are.
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Yes, WITH THE CONSENT OF THE RIGHTSHOLDER, UNDER TERMS THEY NEGOTIATED The "controlled digital lending" theory (CDL) of the Internet Archive asserts they don't have to do this, that whoever owns a physical copy can do whatever they want with it "within reason"
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