Off topic, but I feel that analog library terminology really doesn't carry over well to digital libraries. Most likely because artificial scarcity is so unnatural concept. I wonder how digital libraries will look like and operate in 10 years.
One upside to the covid-19 outbreak is it's introducing a lot of people to the precarious nature of life in countries with a weak social safety net. Copyright is already a compromise between the needs for survival under a capitalist system and the need for the products of culture to return to ownership by the people after a time.
Someone out there is spending their extra home time working on a new compromise. I don't think it'll involve the death of capitalism in our lifetime, but I do think it'll involve a wider awareness of the difference between a market problem and a collective action problem.
