• Mr. Satan@monyet.cc
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    4 months ago

    How is IAs approach much different to that of a regular library?

    True, they were digitising physical books and lending copies. But this is not much different from how a regular library works (assuming controlled digital lending, yeah I heard aboud Covid period 😕).

    I’m not an expert on American law (know nothing about it), but reading the articles and comments I thing there’s an argument to be made for IA functioning as a library.

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      4 months ago

      Because it’s a copy. It’s literally that simple.

      Libraries can operate because of first sale doctrine. You can do almost whatever you want with a physical object that contains a copyrighted work.

      What you can’t do is copy it. There is no possible legal way to distribute a digital copy of a work without an explicit license from the copyright holder. There isn’t even a legal concept of “owning” a digital copy. You purchase a license.