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Originally Posted by Xenophon
That's why the limits on the copyright holder's "limited property right" leave library lending entirely legal.
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And here I was thinking the law mandated "fair use", so that
free library lending was a concession content creators had to make, rather than something they offered to the 'poor' (or really most everyone, since at the time of inception libraries were really the
only way to get at books for whole swathes of the population) out of the goodness of their hearts.
"Fair use" is not something
they - that is, the publishers, who are really the ones that matter - like, in any form; which is why the DMCA seems to have been lobbied for. They don't want citizens to
have the (legal) means to be independent from them, even for backup copies.
Anyway, ebook stores/publishers already make the argument that DRM is "necessary", so hoping that they won't seems rather futile. All they have to do is point with a shaky-from-fear finger to the music/movie industry, and say:
What if?
Anyway, I'm not at all convinced "fair use" is something they
wanted us to have; to them it's just a concession they had to make in order to ensure that copyright laws were created.