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Originally Posted by Phogg
Your social contract with civilization allows you to profit from your book - period.
Making writings available - including to libraries - for the benefit of society is part of a mutual agreement from which authors recieve the benefit of copywrite protection in a reciprocal relationship.
Its a two way contract, you break your part and society owes you zero access to the legal system to enforce exclusivity for your work.
Under what basis did you think copywrite operated?
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Actually, no. Free public libraries did not exist when copyright came into existence. Further, the
lending of pbooks has nothing to do with copyright, at least that I can see.