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[FYI] Librarians targeted in latest copyright battles



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Librarians targeted in latest copyright battles  

By Lisa Bowman  

ZDNet News  

July 12, 2001 4:56 AM PT  

Gone are the days when a librarian's worst offense was hushing 
patrons one too many times.  

In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the 
center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains 
simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free.  

Their leading opponents are the very people who supply the books that 
fill their shelves--the publishers. And now that the high-stakes 
battle over copyrights has moved beyond music and movies to books, 
librarians are finding themselves the subject of rhetoric usually 
reserved for terrorists or revolutionaries.  

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