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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But this is a weak and abstract argument The basic foundation used to argue for CDL, again, was that there was an absolute and inviolable link between the electronic and physical copy - you're only using the "same book" that you physically bought - so it's not piracy
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There's been no attempt to verify or even estimate exactly how many extant, unreachable physical copies in brick-and-mortar libraries "represents" and reduce waitlists accordingly, waitlists have just been abolished in favor of infinite simultaneous copies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @librarythingtim
I can refute this part because I authorized my staff to share our exact record set to match what we could be offering in CDL. OTOH, that has nothing to do with the IA deciding on its own to forgo waitlists during this emergency period.
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Replying to @timmcgeary @librarythingtim
I meant that IA's Emergency Library, in particular, made no such attempt, I wasn't trying to speak generally
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Replying to @arthur_affect @librarythingtim
That’s what I was refuting. It started as a the model you described and we were getting access based on our record set match. Indeed IA did make an attempt but changed course.
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Replying to @timmcgeary @librarythingtim
Ah, well, that's a bad swerve on their part then
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It’s a swerve. I’m unconvinced it’s bad or harmful during this crisis.
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Trying to speak from a completely amoral, detached perspective here, they already knew CDL is very controversial with authors' advocacy groups, that everyone is on edge about what the pandemic will do to their income, and that a big unilateral policy change would make headlines
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