Not sure about an article, but they themselves announced that their emergency covid library would not set limits on the amount of copies that could be checked out. That’s literally the law they broke, that it has to be 1 to 1 outside of any other agreement.
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Oisteink@feddit.nl 6 months agoThey claimed to use the same protections as others. Is there a more accurate article about how their lending was faulty?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 6 months ago
During Covid, they lent out multiple copies of the same book when they only had physical access to one copy. It would be like your local library making Xerox copies of their collection and handing them out.