Rightsholder groups also suggest that licenses are necessary.
When the Copyright Office transfers deposits to the Library, and when the to works. The Internet Archive notes that a licensing regime is not necessary to permit access to.
Library’s collections, explaining that “the Copyright.
Act has always allow libraries to preserve and provide access to works in their collection.
Without permission or authorization from rightsholders. Inde, “Congress has never requir the Library.
Congress, or any other library, to pay licensing fees to preserve or lend items in their collections.”
Not only are these security Library provides
Concerns and licensing proposals meritless, they are a distraction from the Library of Congress.
critical role as collector and special database of our cultural heritage to benefit the public interest. The Software Preservation Network explains that while books, music, software, and other works are increasingly produc digitally and only available through licenses, “the Library of Congress is the only library in the Unit States with a statutory right to acquire and own copies that may otherwise be available only subject to a license.” If the Library were to abandon its role as “a collector and preserver consigning itself instead to the role of licensee, it could lead to a digital dark age in our national Library.” If the Library were requir to license works, SPN cautions, the record of cultural history in the Library’s collection could be subject to the whims of the marketplace, which has no incentive to preserve cultural works.
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