I don't understand this question. If the library purchases a book and lends it out, does that "affect the market"? How would lending material "break copyright law"? If the library *owns* the material, it is free to lend it as it wishes. Usually libraries purchase material for the *express* purpose of lending it out.
Furthermore, isn't our first duty to our patrons and not to "the market"? Otherwise we'd be working in book/media stores. Dusty Haller Dorcas Haller Librarian/Professor/Department Chair Community College of Rhode Island Library One Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 401-455-6085 Fax: 401-455-6087 ... My question is if I purchase the DVDs doesn't it effect the market? Students will buy the textbook, but will use the library DVDs instead of buying them. So isn't the library breaking the copyright law? Farhad Moshiri, MLS Audiovisual Librarian University of the Incarnate Word 4301 Broadway - CPO 297 San Antonio, TX 78209 210-829-3842
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