This has given rise to services like Overdrive, which facilitate the licensing of e-books from publishers for
library lending purposes.
The only benefit of Adobe DRM is that it can be used for
library lending purposes.
Not exact matches
This program will serve a twofold
purpose, first in offering
libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for
lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.
Libraries would need to get an exception granted for the
purpose of repackaging e-books in their own DRM for
lending purposes.
I defer to people who are more knowledgeable about Section 108 of the copyright law, but my view on this is that you could change 108 to give
libraries the rights to do protected digital
lending, but it would be much harder in practice than getting an exemption to the anti-hacking law for this
purpose.
But getting back to your scenario, the the
library situation is different because
libraries are in the business of high - volume
lending and it's the
purpose for which they buy the books.
selling the eBook rights to
library for
lending purposes.