E-books can be lent by libraries just like normal books, rules EU’s top court
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Thu Nov 17 2016Maciej Szpunar, advocate general to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), who previously said that lending out e-books should be permitted, provided authors are fairly compensated in the same way as for physical books.
The European Union's highest court was asked to rule on a case brought by the association of Dutch public libraries—Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken (VOB)—against Stichting Leenrecht, an authors' rights collecting foundation. VOB argued that the rules should be the same for digital lending as for traditional books, and the District Court in The Hague asked the CJEU to clarify whether that view was consistent with a 2006 EU copyright directive on rentals and lending.