Now Available: Video Recording of “Mythbusting Controlled Digital Lending” Webinar

The Mythbusting Controlled Digital Lending” Webinar sponsored by The Internet Archive and Library Futures was recorded on February 10, 2020.

From the Video Recording Website:

Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Library Futures, this webinar addressed the most commonly repeated myths about Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), countering misinformation and disinformation about the library practice now in use by hundreds of libraries. Attendees heard from authors, librarians, copyright specialists, and policy experts as they responded to the common misconceptions about controlled digital lending.

Jump to:

• Welcome from Jennie Rose Halperin, Library Futures
• Controlled Digital Lending Explained video
• CDL demo

Myth 1: Controlled Digital Lending is digital piracy

Reality: CDL uses technology to replicate a library’s right to loan works, in a digital format, to one user at a time


 

Myth 2: CDL harms authors

Reality: CDL can help authors by enhancing the discoverability, availability, and accessibility of their works

 

Myth 3: The Internet Archive invented CDL

Reality: CDL is simply an application of fair use and fair use has been around as long as copyright


 

Q&A

 

Myth 4: Fair use does not allow whole book scanning


Reality: Fair use allows use of the amount necessary to fulfill your purpose


 

Myth 5: Digital lending hurts publisher sales


Reality: Digital and physical libraries contribute to a healthy publishing ecosystem and increase sales and engagement for creative work


 

Myth 6: The ReDigi decision made CDL illegal


Reality: The ReDigi decision opens up the potential for more technological uses, like CDL, for non-commercial, educational access


 

Myth 7: CDL only benefits people who don’t want to buy books


Reality: CDL helps users with print disabilities access books


 

Myth 8: “Real” libraries license ebooks

Reality: Libraries preserve information, and preservation requires ownership, not licensing agreements

 

Myth 9: Libraries need author & publisher permission for CDL

Reality: Author & publisher control ends at the time a book is purchased, and then fair use begins

 

Myth 10: Digital libraries aren’t “real” libraries, and don’t have the same rights


Reality: The copyright act makes no distinction between digital libraries and physical ones


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