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Library schemes, fees per book loaned and permissions vary by country and by media type. Not everyone is in the USA. USA laws do not apply outside the USA. Sadly eBooks are rarely by the same rules as paper.
Also in most countries the Copyright Holder has the right to decide how or if copies are done. Not USA Courts or Google or the Internet Archive, no matter how virtuous they are at preserving information.
From the point of view of Irish and UK law both Google and the Internet Archive have been breaking copyright (civil issue, not a criminal) for over a decade by scanning British and Irish works still in copyright.
Also Google invented their own definition of "Orphan Works".
The big USA Corporations, OTOH, are responsible for the disgraceful extensions of Life + term and Corporate Copyrights, DRM and DMCA. All immoral corporate "theft" that does nothing for creators and immediate children.
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