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Originally Posted by ApK
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Because that doesn't answer the question. It's simply an unsupported assumption on your part that the temporary sub-license to you from the library provides all the same rights as the license held by the library. It also doesn't settle the issue as to whether it's truly a license, ownership, or something in-between that hasn't been properly defined yet.
As it is, all I see in your argument is a statement to the effect that library borrowing is simply "time-limited ownership," conferring all the same rights as ownership, with no compelling evidence to support the assertion.
If I have a volume license key for some software, and give you a copy to put on your work laptop, that doesn't mean that you have the right to crack the software and put it on another computer instead - even if you don't use it on your work laptop and delete it from the other computer when you're done with it.
If you purchase a license, you own that license. If you borrow a book from the library you are temporarily using their license. I have seen no compelling argument that you have the same rights over their license as you would over your own license.
One is yours, one isn't.