Aqua Bait
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What side of the fence do you fall on?
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After reading through, it appears they are not acting as a traditional library.
"Unlike traditional libraries, it does not acquire books directly through licensing deals with publishers, but through purchases and donations. The archive also includes millions of movies, TV shows, videos, audio recordings and other materials."
For more on how traditional libraries work, this link.
https://www2.societyofauthors.org/where-we-stand/public-lending-right-plr/
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Somewhere in the middle.
A lot of deceased authors have working trusts whose lawyers have ensured the work they claim to protect will die. This is stupid.
On the other hand, we need to get away from the idea that internet = free.
In this case, it'd depend for me on how these digital editions were loaned out. I don't see any problem with Adobe Digital Editions, for example. If they were using that or similar to fix the number of copies, that would change things.
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Somewhere in the middle.
A lot of deceased authors have working trusts whose lawyers have ensured the work they claim to protect will die. This is stupid.
On the other hand, we need to get away from the idea that internet = free.
In this case, it'd depend for me on how these digital editions were loaned out. I don't see any problem with Adobe Digital Editions, for example. If they were using that or similar to fix the number of copies, that would change things.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Aqua Bait:
Somewhere in the middle.
A lot of deceased authors have working trusts whose lawyers have ensured the work they claim to protect will die. This is stupid.
On the other hand, we need to get away from the idea that internet = free.
In this case, it'd depend for me on how these digital editions were loaned out. I don't see any problem with Adobe Digital Editions, for example. If they were using that or similar to fix the number of copies, that would change things.
Can't you set a time limit on ADE? Say, two weeks or so?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Aqua Bait:
Somewhere in the middle.
A lot of deceased authors have working trusts whose lawyers have ensured the work they claim to protect will die. This is stupid.
On the other hand, we need to get away from the idea that internet = free.
In this case, it'd depend for me on how these digital editions were loaned out. I don't see any problem with Adobe Digital Editions, for example. If they were using that or similar to fix the number of copies, that would change things.
Can't you set a time limit on ADE? Say, two weeks or so?
@Aqua-Letifer said in Aqua Bait:
Somewhere in the middle.
A lot of deceased authors have working trusts whose lawyers have ensured the work they claim to protect will die. This is stupid.
On the other hand, we need to get away from the idea that internet = free.
In this case, it'd depend for me on how these digital editions were loaned out. I don't see any problem with Adobe Digital Editions, for example. If they were using that or similar to fix the number of copies, that would change things.
Can't you set a time limit on ADE? Say, two weeks or so?
You can indeed; there's even an option to allow and limit the number of renewals.
