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A lot of my writer friends have been alarmed by the @internetarchive's #NationalEmergencyLibrary, an electronic lending library.
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The Archive has long acquired and scanned books and made them available as DRM-locked PDFs that one person at a time could check out, building on firm copyright precedent, notably the #HathiTrust decision.
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The vast majority of "checkouts" from the Archive have always been fleeting -- literally minutes long. Basically, it's a quick way to double-check a reference or look up a passage (a lot of checkouts are generated by people following references from Wikipedia).
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