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From: gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst)
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Subject: Re: Theft of Copyrighted Material
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Date: Sat, 12-May-84 20:54:32 EDT
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>> I wonder why its OK to take a book out of a library, read it, and
>> return it, paying NOTHING to the copyright owner, but its not OK
>> to copy the book and then read it?  Either way, the copyright owner
>> gets zero.  Or does the library pay the owner?

Many countries of the world have "public lending rights" (PLR) payments
to authors, which do compensate them for library use of their books.
The usual method of implementation is for the government to pay the author
a fixed amount annually for each copy of his/her book in a library.
The libraries and patrons do not themselves have to pay.
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