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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
You mean, can the Harvard library loan books in the same manner as the DuPont corporate library and the University of Massachusetts library and the Boston Public Library? Yes. Or did I miss something here?
Note that each above-mentioned institution spends large amounts of money buying books, and, especially, periodicals, which, if libraries did not buy them, might never get published.
How many billions of dollars did the world's libraries spend buying reading material last year? And how many billions did torrent sites spend?
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I wonder if Harvard and other NGOs are required to be licensed to share intellectual property. There are plenty of them.
For the sake of this discussion, let's just say unsanctioned library. I happen to own hundreds of very popular books, some very expensive text books, hundreds of DVDs, and hundreds of CDs. I have a dozen computers and a copier as well. Can I act in the same ways as a library? Can I charge membership fees to offset the costs of running the library? Can I make a profit?