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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Of course you can lend a physical book; no arguments there. But, pray tell, how do you lend an ebook without copying or reproducing it? Therein lies the "gotcha".
If you want ebook lending, convince the publishers; and leave the courts out of it.
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I can't see an instance where publishers would willingly adopt that as a policy. The psuedo-lending that exists technologically is a marketing-ploy because of the lack of lending that exists. They don't want to lose customers to that argument, so they've thrown together this fake version of lending.
I can only see them adopting it by force of the courts, and really what that means is that they wouldn't be able to pursue criminal or civil redress for the activity. (They'd still stick DRM on it and nail you with the DMCA)