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Originally Posted by Fluribus
Are you sure you meant that first part? I have no contractual obligations to compensate Mr. Deary. I have no legal duties to compensate Mr. Deary. The libraries in England apparently have some legal duties to compensate him and they are doing so. Whether or not he is happy with the legal requirements is utterly irrelevant to me. Especially since I don't live in England and can no longer frequent libraries.
I seem to recall that the movie studios initially hated the movie rental stores. However, they must have come to see them as being valuable sources of income. They started putting out ads for DVD releases urging people to buy or rent.
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The obligation is not contractual, but that is only because someone else has undertaken it. There is a chain of obligation, even if one is at the freeloading end of it. Of course, with respect to this particular author, you don't stand in that position.
Your point about movies is interesting, but assuming that the author is the studio, libraries have to figure out how to be Netflix rather than Blockbuster. Or Amazon rather than Borders. Right now, maybe they are B&N.