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Originally Posted by maximus83
How do you fulfill on a non-profit library's mission to curate and provide information at low/no cost for everybody, while still ensuring that authors/publishers are paid for their intellectual property?
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By maximizing use of PD and Creative Commons works and paying for reasonable licenses for copyrighted material, the way public libraries operate. This mess is an unnecessary distraction that needs to be settled quickly: It's not really hard to figure out that things that are tolerable when done by one person privately are unacceptable when done en-masse and openly.
Instead of justifying rogue operations like this, the conversation should really be about the library-hostile licensing terms of some publishers.