From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:27:52 -0700

Last week, the Internet Archive's open library forum was devoted to the
practice and possibilities of controlled digital lending, a way of relying
on fair use to begin to make in-copyright library materials available to
the public digitally while respecting copyright and complying with the
law.  Three recent documents:

1.  a longer white paper on the subject:
https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv/7fdyr/    Further document is included at
https://controlleddigitallending.org/readings

2.  a more concise 'position statement' authored by legal scholars at
Harvard, NYU, Georgetown, Duke, and the Internet Archive:
https://controlleddigitallending.org/statement

3.  an even more concise blog post by Duke's scholarly communications
librarian David Hansen summarizing the issues:
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2018/09/28/controlled-digital-lending-of-library-books/

The problem addressed is critical, what Brewster Kahle of the IA calls "the
loss of the twentieth century" -- our collective inability to access the
bulk of the material in our library collections, from the 1920s forward, in
any form other than print.

Jim O'Donnell
Arizona State University