I don’t understand why people are shocked at this outcome.
Nothing was stopping IA from both reading the physical copy purchased (or potentially lending it out, physically), as well as lending out the copy that was created as a result of digitization.
Losing this was inevitable.
In fact, the analogies to libraries were flawed from the start. Libraries purchase a book and lend out the very book that was purchased. Clearly that’s not what’s happening with the internet archive.
I’m other words: a library lends out book b. The internet archive buys book c, puts it through Digitize(), which returns book cprime and lends out cprime. However fair use would only permit lending out c, not cprime.
Nothing was stopping IA from both reading the physical copy purchased (or potentially lending it out, physically), as well as lending out the copy that was created as a result of digitization.
Losing this was inevitable.
In fact, the analogies to libraries were flawed from the start. Libraries purchase a book and lend out the very book that was purchased. Clearly that’s not what’s happening with the internet archive.
I’m other words: a library lends out book b. The internet archive buys book c, puts it through Digitize(), which returns book cprime and lends out cprime. However fair use would only permit lending out c, not cprime.