Publishers are seeing this as their moment to destroy public libraries. The evidence of this is all around, including most recently their efforts to derail the the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)'s Interoperable Standards for Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) Working Group. "These (publisher) groups waited until the end of the process to declare that the entire concept of digital lending is unacceptable to them," writes Jennie Rose Halperin. Anyhow, "Whether or not big publishers approve, the standards are drafted and ready for use." This is the point at which legislators, not the courts, should be intervening, to protect public libraries, and in passing, the democracies they protect. Via Dan Gillmor.
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