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Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by londons_explore on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:11PM (#23933073)
But usually a van physically transports the book to the lendee...

I think the debate will be if making a digital copy and locking the original book in a safe is equivalent, and if I were a judge, I would say "no", because to say otherwise significantly weakens copyright in so many other ways.

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Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by esrauch on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:58PM (#23933700)
It seems like "faster vans" and "more effective nagging people to immediately return books they have already finished" would also weaken copyright under that line of argument; both allow you to loan the same copy to more people in sequence.
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