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Strange that this isn't easily dealt with by: 1. IA actually buying a physical copy (or as many copies as they plan on simultaneously making available to borro
by gcanyon 4y ago
Strange that this isn't easily dealt with by:
1. IA actually buying a physical copy (or as many copies as they plan on simultaneously making available to borrowers) of the book.
2. After scanning the physical copy, destroying it, and documenting same.
Then as long as they guarantee that they only loan out as many copies as they physically had (before destroying them) there's no question of simultaneous usage.
- malborodog 4y agoWhy isn't it easily dealt with by doing that??
- cowsandmilk 4y agoThe Internet Archive freely admitted in the case that the physical copies owned by partner libraries were not destroyed.
- gcanyon 4y agoYeah, I get that they may not have done this -- that's why I suggested it could be "easily dealt with" by doing this.
- harshreality 4y agoIA doesn't want to destroy its own books, because it warehouses them in climate-controlled spaces so that it can re-scan them with improved technology in the future. That should hardly preclude (controlled) lending of scans of its own physical books that nobody is using, even under current draconian copyright law.