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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Because it's a copy. It's literally that simple.

Libraries can operate because of first sale doctrine. You can do almost whatever you want with a physical object that contains a copyrighted work.

What you can't do is copy it. There is no possible legal way to distribute a digital copy of a work without an explicit license from the copyright holder. There isn't even a legal concept of "owning" a digital copy. You purchase a license.