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Well, some countries already created legislation to settle the issue (Public Lending Right)

In Germany for example, libraries pay a few cents (~3-4) every time they lend out one of their books / films / etc. AFAIK this is also true for digital copies which are also limited to the number of licenses the library acquired.



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