Amateur Megalomania

The New York Public Library, The Branch Libraries

The New York Public Library is now offering eBooks for check out. Under this system, you check out the book by downloading it to your reader, and after 21 days, it ‘expires’ and is ‘returned’ to the library by being deleted from your reader.

Now, I imagine that someone will figure out how to bypass the time limit. Again I have to ask – why do we feel we have the right to circulate copyrighted works without paying appropriate compensation to the author?

[Credit to this blogger as the source for this finding.]

Filed under: Copyright