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Except it isn't. By this standard, book publishers would have to go pound sand if libraries started giving away infinitely many copies of their book.
by Chlorus 11y ago
Except it isn't. By this standard, book publishers would have to go pound sand if libraries started giving away infinitely many copies of their book.
- ghaff 11y agoTo be more precise, it doesn't *matter" if the Internet Archive is a "library" or not because libraries don't have any special status with respect to copyright law in the US. (Beyond whatever special status publishers may choose to give certain classes of libraries with respect to digital rights.) You or I can choose to setup a lending library tomorrow and we have the same rights to loan out physical books as the New York Public Library does.
- cookiecaper 11y agoYes, as you point out, due to the first sale doctrine. Such a thing doesn't exist in the digital realm.