Thread: Open Source culture to blame for e-book piracy!
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Old 01-07-2010, 08:20 PM   #229
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Are you sure you're not confusing it with legal deposit, which I mentioned (and of which Australia has a scheme)? They have to provide a certain number of books (for free) to certain libraries in the UK, but they're archives rather than lending libraries.

Also at least here the criteria for legal deposit and the PLR overlap... (ISBN's)
Here in Australia, as far as I'm aware, all books must be available for lending in libraries. That does not mean the author/publisher must provide those books to the library free of charge. It means that they can not legally stop the library from acquirinig the book and lending it to whomever is a member of the library.

As for archival libraries, I believe it is the same as in the UK and USA in that the publisher must provide a certain number of copies to the library for free.

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