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A few posts back we were talking about ethics. It would seem to me that ethics would require that public libraries limit their offerings to educational and historical materials.
I think that right to share IP without restriction would be explicitly granted by the IP rights holders.
I can't, for the life of me, reconcile the conflicting images of 'not-for-profit' IP distributers as 1) pirates, and 2) keepers of "the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action" -- especially when those wrapped in the latter make all the money.
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