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> was Vacuous labels. A library provides access to texts; the idea of lending single texts serially just comes from the physical restrictions of physical books
by mdp2021 2y ago
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Vacuous labels. A library provides access to texts; the idea of lending single texts serially just comes from the physical restrictions of physical books, which loses meaning with the electronic format.
A library lends books. There is little difference if the queue is respected when such queue is artificial.
- account42 2y agoRight and if the IA was following that logic it should have never bothered with any DRM in the first place.
- pie_flavor 2y agoNo, it comes from the legal restrictions of copyright, which forbid making and distributing copies without the permission of the copyright holder. "Library" is not a magic word that exempts you from all copyright restrictions.
- mdp2021 2y agoAnd in fact the copyright holder has no power about its product, when published, not being acquired by key libraries. It was so for example under Ptolemy III Euergetes (who mandated that every found book be copied for the Museum in Alexandria), and it is so today. Libraries are there for collection of and access to recorded knowledge. The modalities of accession had a form with the physical book, and may lose meaning with current new formats (there is no natural exclusive access to a single token). So, labelling "piracy" simultaneous access may easily be just vacuous technicality.
- pie_flavor 2y ago'Vacuous' is a good word to describe comments about Ptolemy and tokens, when copyright law forbids making and distributing copies without permission from the copyright holder, and that is exactly what IA was doing.
- mdp2021 2y agoReference to the traditional historical intention about having libraries and to relation between codified law and practicalities will remain vacuous to you in meaning for as long as you will refuse to see the communicated point about a clash between principles, which makes the copyright laws you mention, as part of a dialectic, even weaker than normal positive law.