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Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'

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Re: for a certain definition of free

"Your contract allows you to prevent libraries from purchasing your books? That's how they obtain their copies that they then loan out."

I guess some readers may be unfamiliar with the Public Lending Right scheme used since 1979 by legitimate libraries in the UK?

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