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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: pcreso AT pcreso.com, Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] TPM: please explicitly allow parallel distribution
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:35:34 -0400

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:55 PM, <pcreso AT pcreso.com> wrote:
- a book may be released under a CC-BY-NC licence, allowing individuals to download, but libraries charging for issuing the book are required to have a commercial licence.

I don't know about other jurisdictions, but not in the US.  Libraries don't need permission of the author to lend books.  To put it another way, the author of a book can't stop libraries from lending out their book (whether they charge a fee or not).



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