Several links for those following the publishers v. Internet Archive lawsuit over controlled digital lending:
Both sides seem to be framing the issue in a way that lawsuits aren't especially well designed to resolve: what is a library and what is the function of a library? The Little Free Library Movement (
https://littlefreelibrary.org/) captures the primal moment of sharing a few books in a small community, when "book" was a pretty simple and standard sort of object. We're long, long past that in what libraries do but progress brings opportunity brings ambiguity. Do we move forward by analogy to create those communities of sharing, or do we run up against hard boundaries past which that ideal won't be allowed to go? Quite apart from the details of this case, that's what I think we're really talking about -- and whatever the upshot of the lawsuit, I doubt it will end the discussions.