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No, physical items have reasonable legal protection against the IP holder trying to dictate what you do with it after purchase. The first sale doctrine allows l
by thfuran 3y ago
No, physical items have reasonable legal protection against the IP holder trying to dictate what you do with it after purchase. The first sale doctrine allows libraries, game and video rental shops and such to physically lend copyrighted works. But when "purchasing" an ebook is actually just purchasing a heavily restricted and revocable license to personally use a work but not share it in any way, it doesn't apply. So libraries have to buy special ebook licenses that cost several times more than consumer ones and expire after dinner number of views. I assume it's similar for audiobooks and movies, but it's all up to individual publishers what restrictions and costs they'll impose on the licenses that permit lending.
- bombcar 3y agoIt's insane really - a library could buy a book and a robot with a camera, and let you turn the pages using the robot, and that would be fine; but ebooks are different, like software.