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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • February 7, 2001
    ``[Former US Congresswoman Pat] Schroeder is president of the Washington- and New York-based Association of American Publishers, sponsor of the event. Like a nurturing shepherd, she moves gently among her flock. But when she talks about threats to the group, she stiffens her back. And who, you might be wondering, is giving Schroeder and her publishers such a fright? Librarians, of course. No joke. Of all the dangerous and dot-complex problems that American publishers face in the near future – economic downturns, competition for leisure time, piracy – perhaps the most explosive one could be libraries. Publishers and librarians are squaring off for a battle royal over the way electronic books and journals are lent out from libraries and over what constitutes fair use of written material.''

    Full story at the Washington Post:
    http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html

    Reference by Slashdot.org

    garethwi points us to Tom the Dancing Bug's opinion on the matter:
    http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2000/08/24/boll/index.html

    And for good measure, we'll throw in Richard Stallman's article, ``The Right to Read'':
    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

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