Controlled Digital Lending by Libraries

https://controlleddigitallending.org/

“Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is an emerging method that allows libraries to loan print books to digital patrons in a “lend like print” fashion. Through CDL, libraries use technical controls to ensure a consistent “owned-to-loaned” ratio, meaning the library circulates the exact number of copies of a specific title it owns, regardless of format, putting controls in place to prevent users from redistributing or copying the digitized version. When CDL is appropriately tailored to reflect print book market conditions and controls are properly implemented, CDL may be permissible under existing copyright law. CDL is not intended to act as a substitute for existing electronic licensing services offered by publishers. Indeed, one significant advantage of CDL is addressing the “Twentieth Century Problem” of older books still under copyright but unlikely ever to be offered digitally by commercial services.”

Signatories to the Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending by Libraries include:

Authors Alliance
Digital Public Library of America
Duke University Libraries
Internet Archive
UC Berkeley Library
California Digital Library

On the Digital Lending Feature of the Internet Archive see here:
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/81128
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/97266

See also
https://blog.ualberta.ca/controlled-digital-lending-a5e9d14dc56b
http://blog.bibliothekarisch.de/blog/tag/controlled-digital-lending/
https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/02/aap-slams-cdl-controlled-digital-lending-uk-authors-appeal-to-internet-archive-funders/
https://www.ifla.org/node/91896?og=29

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