Online library

Okay guys my name is Chris I was thinking of creating online private library where to give you the choice optimal books for you to peruse that at your leisure it would be non downloadable so it would be protected and copy written and it wouldn't be free to any user you got to pay a small subscription fee and you have access to this library the library currently has about purse 110 books.... On coin collecting law

 

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Hmm. And what do the authors and publishers of these books have to say about your idea of sharing their work online for your personal profit?

 

There profit is recognition... For such sublime works

 

LOL

 

Have you considered the DRM problems? Unless the author has agreed with their publisher in advance over this and both have surrendered their right in writing, it would be a serious problem. Ask a copyright lawyer first. IMO, Jim

 

Not sure you can do this legally. See what others think.

 

I'm in the camp that this probably wouldn't work. Good idea but I would think that what @desertgem said would be an issue.

 

I'm quite sure that you can't. Look, I'm not a lawyer, but putting up copyrighted works in their entirety on the Internet without the owner's permission is the most obvious violation of copyright law I can imagine. It doesn't even matter that he's talking about charging for them, except that it would make the judge laugh even harder before going ahead and imposing prison time in addition to the usual damages and court costs.

I've never been quite sure whether this poster is just trolling. This thread is no exception.

 

Yes, this seems a little too reckless to be taken seriously.

And it very much violates all copyright laws and would lead to take down orders, large fines and maybe worse.

 

If it is kept private, on a personal server and only those with dedicated server access when nobody can actually download it but make it read only. It is admissible they already created as a PDF for use

 

I'm just charging a cover charge to access the server

 

Yeah, go back and read the terms of use for that PDF.

And violating the terms of use for every document that's on it.

 

Forget it.. Don't do it.

 

Just say no

 

How do libraries have on-line access to books? Is it a violation of copyright laws for me to let a friend borrow my book? I sent three books to a friend of mine to read. He paid for shipping and handling. I would appreciate if you could tell me the difference, even if it is a pdf file that I loan someone and ask for donations to cover my costs.

 

There are some legal exemptions for academic research. In the past libraries have sent me Xerox copies of small pamphlets but it takes a long time - there are many hoops to jump through and sometimes you have to pay a fee of dollars per page. Printers who reissue copyrighted books require contracts from the author for modern stuff. Since the copyright law gives the author 28 years and they can legally renew the copyright several times the rule of thumb for things falling into the public domain is 75 tears. They do those issues more than 75 years old without worrying about copyright lawsuits. Hope this helps.

 

.. 75 tears

 

The difference in your case is that each paid copy has only one user at a time. You bought the book. You can loan it or give it or even sell it to someone else, but while they have it, you don't. If you want to keep it and give it to someone else, you buy another copy.

Libraries typically buy the rights to share a certain number of copies of a book online. So, even though it's very easy to make a new digital copy -- in fact, you're really copying the information multiple times to get it from a storage device to a screen -- the library can only "loan" each book to one user at a time.

Yes, this legal framework is a poor match for modern information technology, where copying is ubiquitous. But it's the framework we've got.

 

The rule of thumb traditionally has been "however many years it's been since Disney made it big, plus a few, because Disney's lobbyists always manage to get the term extended further to protect their cash cows".

 

If you are worried about lending a book legally sell it to him for a dollar and when he sends it back to you buy it for a dollar. Refunding shipping is a separate issue and is not part of the purchase price unless you get paypal involved then they charge you a fee for the total including shipping.