A few weeks back, attorneys filed a final round of briefs for a largely unknown case against the world’s biggest free digital library — the Internet Archive, a treasure trove of over 35 million books, 8 million videos, and some 734 billion web pages.
Theoretically, absolutely. If this system were applied to physical books that are checked out and handed to you, that would mean a lot more money from libraries to publishers and would very likely affect how many physical books are available in your local library.The publisher's argument is pretty straightforward. The archive shares their intellectual property, and now they have to pay them back. I think I get that argument. I just don't understand how they have the gall of making it.
If the Internet Archive loses the suit, does that mean all libraries that lend out digital books according to the control lending process — would they have to change that practice as well?Absolutely. You know, however many libraries are employing controlled digital lending right now. They would have to stop that and figure out their own monetary damages and their scale. And this would apply to movies, audio recordings, sheet music. Libraries will have to rethink all those, too.
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