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Does this case's effect on CDL mean that a library could still buy a huge stack of ultra-cheap eBook readers, load each one up with their one copy of a given bo
by Kerrick 2y ago
Does this case's effect on CDL mean that a library could still buy a huge stack of ultra-cheap eBook readers, load each one up with their one copy of a given book, and then lend out the physical readers?
- tptacek 2y agoPresumably not, because the same copies would be created. This wasn't a case that hinged on DRM or content protection. IA was making copies, lots of copies, and that's an action governed by copyright law; it's right there in the name. All that aside: if you have 1:1 physical books anyways, what is the reader accomplishing here? Just loan out the book.
- kmeisthax 2y agoNo, but I suspect the licensing on the ebooks already forbids transferring the physical reader the book is on to another person.