Article:		ISO to Require Royalties?
Subject:		Digital Library
Date:		2003-09-25 09:13:01
From:		maw rya
What about an online PDF library or something similar that would allow people to check-out digital documents/books for a set number of hours, or even have multiple people view a document at the same time? A waiting list could be implemented that notifies you when you turn has arrived. I am not sure there are any legal reasons why such a digital library could not exist in an equivalent form to a physical library. It seems the Recording industries are already pioneering the copyright protection policies that would make something like this possible.

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• Digital Library
  2003-09-26 14:38:38 Robert Hanson [Reply]
  
  O'Reilly already does something similar to this with it's books. Their Safari on-line service allows you to "check-out" 5 books during a month for about $10. Something like this would make it affordable to read the specifications since you don't actually purchase them.