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Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.
Which IA failed to do, which is why they got sued, and why they can’t lend those publishers’ books at all anymore.
I have no sympathy.
They claimed to use the same protections as others. Is there a more accurate article about how their lending was faulty?
Not sure about an article, but they themselves announced that their emergency covid library would not set limits on the amount of copies that could be checked out. That's literally the law they broke, that it has to be 1 to 1 outside of any other agreement.