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Within the bounds of existing law, what can libraries do to digitize their collections and make at least some parts of in-copyright works publicly accessible
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By hosting files and then allowing users to view the hosted files i.e. streaming texts, the library can bypass copyright. But it would be far better to change existing copyright law to better facilitate the public's access to the texts/everything.
The entire purpose of digitizing a collection is to make it available to anyone with the means to access. Limiting the public's access to a part of a work, that's not really acceptable.
