I admire Brewster Kahle, and I and my company have contributed to the IA’s book efforts before, but this project is a violation of copyright and a danger to writers’ already tenuous ability to make ends meet.https://nyti.ms/2WX8A82
One of the three foundational principles of CDL is "one electronic copy per physical purchase", it's the whole bedrock of the argument that CDL is just the equivalent of physical lending and doesn't cut into sales at all The Emergency Library has explicitly removed that
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The Emergency Library has done exactly what the CDL whitepaper swore up and down must never be allowed to happen through meticulous recordkeeping It allows borrowing with no waitlists, i.e. one-to-many reproduction
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The justification for this is that given the pandemic many physical libraries are closed and therefore *in principle* the IA is still only serving one-to-one copies of the many physical books nationwide that are temporarily unavailable
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