Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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wizbowes is offline wizbowes
2011-02-18 , 11:12
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Originally Posted by nman View Post
Perhaps you're unaware, but there are places called libraries that have books for free, where they can be read, and the author doesn't get a dime.
Perhaps you are the one who is unaware. Authors do get paid for people reading their works in libraries in many countries (Canada, the United Kingdom, all the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand) - it's called Public Lending Rights and it's source of incoming for the author long after the book is out of print.

You can read about it on the internets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right