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My personal opinion is that money does get into "lending" as I think that the public libraries have to pay for their copy or copies. And believe the purpose of copyrights is to "protect" the "intellectual property" of the writer or whatever via a payment for use as in singers singing a song for money in public must pay the composer something or otherwise negotiated; I do recall that figure skaters just let their managers do the necessary.
The authors & publishers do miss their cuts in the resale of their books in the used book section. They must be working in trying to get the used book stores to pay them a royalty also.
BUT I wonder if anyone knows why a book's title is not included in the copyright?????? I've been misled by several books at some point where I thought a book for sale was the same book that I've read or have known somewhere! Haven't read all the fine parts of a copyright, but thought that the phrase "all or in part" was in there & a book's title is definitely "in part". Is there a word count for what is being copyrighted or not?
Too bad I cannot think of any books that have the same title now....
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