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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
I'm a little shaky on the legality of this idea, (although I think it's brilliant).
Theoretically, could a library buy an eReader, setup an Amazon (or Kobo or what-have-you) account under the Library's name, purchase books for that reader and then publically lend the reader with individually purchased ebooks loaded?
Could that library then purchase and authorize five readers to simultaneously allow that one purchased book to be loaded and lent? As I understand DRM (Adobe anyways) can't a purchased book legally be on a couple of authorized devices without copyright infringement?
Surely the various "you've licensed this book, not bought it" agreements would disallow the library lending of the physical ereader even though the loaded book was legally purchased for said ereader?
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Look at precedent established in law, with loaner computers and the software on them.
There is zero new ground here.