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Check out Jenny Levine’s thoughts on copyright, the new media and libraries–and a related item elsewhere on the threat that the so-called Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act would create for consumers and libraries. Sen. Hollings’s bill would lead to a technological nightmare and interfere with fair use. South Carolina, his state, doesn’t exactly have the highest family incomes. In fact, South Carolina is the very kind of place where electronic books could eventually do the most good as a resource-stretcher. Shame on Hollings for placing Hollywood’s interests over those of his constituents. Too bad South Carolina librarians can’t afford to outbid the Rosens and Valentis for Hollings’s attention.

Meanwhile, in the Carolinas and elsewhere, librarians should do what they can–within the present laws–to prepare for e-books.

 
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