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Know Your Rights: Radical Digital Lending for Libraries

This zine explores novel legal theories to assist librarians and their allies in combating exploitative ebook practices, such as fair-use restrictions, surveillance, and lack of accessibility. This zine presents new theories for addressing these issues, and making ebook lending equitable, ethical, and effective. These theories are presented as a progression from individual actions (negotiating contracts and utilizing 17 U.S.C. §108(e)) to...

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 9, 2026
Date Modified in MERLOT:: January 9, 2026
Authors:: Amanda Levendowski
Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP) Clinic
Submitter:: Ashley Sergiadis
Primary Audience:: Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: PDF, Website

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International