[two23]

Every public library that offers books to readers for free is "book sharing"....every time I read a book and pass it on to a friend, I'm book sharing..same thing. I don't hear the authors and publishers of the nation going to and fro looking for people to devour with law suits.

[longtermmemmory]

The library also allows you to check out dvd's and music cd's. The public library paid the copyright fee.


remeber this is intelectual property NOT physical property. The rules of ownership and compensation are DIFFERENT.

[supercat]

Every public library that offers books to readers for free is "book sharing"....every time I read a book and pass it on to a friend, I'm book sharing..same thing. I don't hear the authors and publishers of the nation going to and fro looking for people to devour with law suits.

If a library has one purchased copy of a book, then if someone else is using that copy nobody else can. If the library has two purchased copies, then two people can use the book at the same time, but nobody else can until one of the two is done with it.

Borland had the right idea in the license agreement that came with version 3 of their Pascal compiler. Why can't anyone else follow suit?