So if the IA owned all the copies, then this isn't an issue?
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It makes me genuinely sad that during a time of national crisis, book publishers (and some authors) seem to only care about their own profits.
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I strongly doubt that is happening.
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For this to be the case, they would have had to loan out more copies than are currently unusable in libraries AND the loan needs to be done in lieu of a purchase. There are 1 million books on there, the odds of that happening in substantial amounts is exceedingly low.
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It's not really the sales from the next few months that are at issue, it's the IA flexing their untested legal doctrine that "fair use" means they can unilaterally create and alter digital licenses with no input from the rightsholder
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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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