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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
I agree with you about the necessity for copyright reform, but I doubt libraries have as much power as you think they do. For one thing, libraries' being public institutions doesn't prevent them from being sued, at least in the US. With state and county budgets across the country already suffering greatly because of the recession, I doubt any library would really open itself up to such devastating lawsuits. Let's not forget we live in a bureaucracy.
Secondly, libraries, even if they were able to throw around their full weight, don't have nearly as much weight as you think they do, relative to every single other industry that depends on copyright and other so-called "intellectual property rights" and would defend them with every cent they have. Libraries don't really stand a chance in this hypothetical battle.
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Perhaps we should be asking ourselves if it is right to be suing a library for the dissemination of knowledge, the reason for the libraries existence.
I think I will have to go ask my local librarian about this.
