How do you know that they're sharing more? Like there's no restriction on copies but they could sharing a lot less. And we have even less evidence this will harm author earnings.
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The consequences in years to come if people just let that pass unchallenged are really dire
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The Authors Guild literally wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't push back on this as hard as they could, no different than what SEIU would be obligated to do for its members if restaurants just stopped paying overtime
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You can do that. You've always been able to do that. Librarians do that all the time. They work with IA to do that. This is an ambitious use but it's for an extraordinary situation. I don't see publishers or authors meeting the need so libraries have to.
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Like where is the explosion of temporary free e-books as one to one replacements for the unusable physical books? Who are the publishers and authors making that happen?
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