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What allows libraries to carry and lend out materials.....
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Aren't public libraries funded with tax dollars? At least in the US... Of course major libraries get private donations too...
I believe public libraries are part of the county government. I don't think there is anything stopping you from amassing a ton of books and lending them out to people, you just wouldn't be able to call yourself a county library.
Why would they need a license? Anybody can buy a book and lend it to anyone else as long as they don't keep a copy for themselves. Libraries don't violate copyright law. Public/private doesn't matter.
you can start the "SamIchi Library" if you want
depending on where you are and what the local laws are, you might have to get a standard business license, but that wouldn't be a "library" license
Public Lending Right also applies.
This allows authors to receive payment for the loans of their books by public libraries.
This of course does not apply to publications in the public domain
This allows authors to receive payment for the loans of their books by public libraries.
This of course does not apply to publications in the public domain
The reason why I made this thread was because of file sharing on the internet. Since my favorite site Oink got shutdown, I was trying to think why it got shut down. If I was to compare Oink to a public library, what is the difference besides the digital factor. Everyone on there somehow acquired an album and decided to share it through a tracker, and the oink site was the library. Yea there was no time limit on how long you could have the files, but with a library, you could basically keep renewing a book, or dvd, or whatever else they offer there. What do you think?
If I was to open a public library, that only held audio, the material original (cd's vinyl, etc.), like books and lent them out to people, whats the difference between that and what Oink did? Granted they also had a lot of software, but if it was strictly audio, what is the difference?
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As a Public Lending Library you have to pay fees and royalties.
That is the difference between lending libraries and software/audio piracy sites such as Oink
As a Public Lending Library you have to pay fees and royalties.
That is the difference between lending libraries and software/audio piracy sites such as Oink
The big difference is that at the public library they have a finite number of physical media for each audio recording lent. At some point the Library will run out of the media and that recording would be available to no-one else. Someone could still keep a copy forever, but they'd be depriving someone else of that recording. With digital data there is always another copy available if someone else wants it, and no one has to return theirs so that someone else can enjoy it.
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As a Public Lending Library you have to pay fees and royalties.
That is the difference between lending libraries and software/audio piracy sites such as Oink
What if i opened up a library and paid those fees?
Shouldn't that be a good thing? With our technology we should be able to acquire information faster and more readily.
Wasn't Oink a download site (I never went there myself, so I'm not positive
)? Couldn't you download songs and keep them forever? You can't do that with a library, as you must return the books/materials at some point (or pay the fine for them). Then you'd be fine. However, record companies are hesitant to do this, so good luck
Actually, not all of that is true. Those "download as many songs as you want for $15/month" sites are legal, but you have to maintain the subscription. Once you stop paying, the songs disappear. I guess that's similar to a library.
You'll find that most libraries are putting content into digital form as well as keeping the physical form. However, I hardly think that music is "information"
You'll find that most libraries are putting content into digital form as well as keeping the physical form. However, I hardly think that music is "information"
You'll also see that some of the book companies also give away a chunk of their library on CD with the purchase of a book, I know BAEN has some several CD versions with around 100 of their old books on it.
Also some publisher sites carry some of their old books available as free downloads to read. The Baen Free Library is a decent example.
Not really too bad a way to pick up some old books, or get people interested in their author's works.
Not necessarily. Producers of the content need to get some sort of compensation. If anyone can go to the Library and download a book for free and keep it forever, who will pay the authors. As it now stands the Library only has a finite number of a book and when they are all gone they either need to purchase more (payment for the book creator) or wait for some to be returned and people who want to read the book can wait or purchase their own copy.
If we allow unrestricted digital lending of books and/or music I'd expect authors and musicians to become very scarce as their only source of revenue would be selling a single copy to every "library." Soon we'd end up with very little new content for the "libraries."
I don't debate that with the current technology things should be easier and faster to obtain, but that doesn't mean that they should be free.