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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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