I think that the idea that lending

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Use and I think that this is a lawsuit I hoped would never happen. Because . Controlled digital lending has been going on for such a long time, it’s really tragic . That at this time of pandemic that the publishers would try to basically cut off . Even access to a digital public library like the internet archive is running.I don’t know . About your library, but my libraries in california are closed.

I can’t get any books . Out of even the university of california berkeley library at this point, the whole campus . Is closed, and so while I haven’t been using the open library for my research . Purposes because they special database don’t have the books in it that I need, I do think . That that it’s just a heartless, tragic thing that this lawsuit is really trying to . Stop a very positive thing that internet archive has been doing.

I’m one of the legal . Scholars who has endorsed the controlled digital lending statement. I think that even under some . Second circuit opinions, one can say that the open library has actually a utility-enhancing transformative . Use. It’s certainly nonprofit, it’s educational, and it promotes literacy and many, many positive things. . a book is illegal is just wrong.I would . Actually like to point out that in germany, where copyright laws are generally stronger than .