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Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-scan dept.

jfruh writes The top European court has ruled that libraries have the right to digitize the contents of the books in their collections, even if the copyright holders on those books don't want them to. There's a catch, though: those digitized versions can only be accessed on dedicated terminals in the library itself. If library patrons want to print the book out or download it to a thumb drive, they will need to pay the publisher.

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  1. Re:Well now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he didn't feel like driving down to the library to look it up?