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The thing that triggered Internet Archive’s current enormous lawsuit problems is that they weren’t imposing a borrower limit. They were letting as many people download copies as they wanted, with no limits.
I’m not at all a fan of current copyright laws, but that’s really going straight into “what are you gonna do, stab me?” territory. This is a job for pirates, not for a library. Leave it to the experts.
The thing that triggered Internet Archive’s current enormous lawsuit problems is that they weren’t imposing a borrower limit. They were letting as many people download copies as they wanted, with no limits.
I’m not at all a fan of current copyright laws, but that’s really going straight into “what are you gonna do, stab me?” territory. This is a job for pirates, not for a library. Leave it to the experts.
They did have a limit for books originally, but removed it during COVID: https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/. I agree that it was a poor decision.