Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library

Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by geofft on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:44PM (#22734489)

What's preventing a library whose physical premises are closed from saying, "Okay, there are 10 copies of this book that literally nobody can get to, we'll lend out 10 e-books," using the old Controlled Digital Lending model?

That is, what about the lockdown requires moving away from the established (even if not court-tested) one-to-one basis and making a new fair use argument about uncontrolled digital lending?

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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by silverreads on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:33PM (#22734720)

> What's preventing a library

It's a huge waste of taxpayer money?

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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by geofft on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:40PM (#22734748)

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. It's a huge waste of taxpayer money for a library, which is already closed and which is already in possession of lots of books, to share those books electronically? How is taxpayer money being used here, let alone wasted?

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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by silverreads on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:44PM (#22734769)

You know exactly how much an SRE makes. That's not what a library should be spending money on. Simply making a copy is thousands of man hours simpler than making a consumer facing online asset tracking system. You wildly misrepresent my obvious intent.

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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by geofft on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:13AM (#22734871)

Oh, that wasn't obvious to me at all - I thought you knew that plenty of libraries already have a consumer-facing online asset tracking system already, powered by the Internet Archive, which is why these books got scanned in the first place.

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