Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.
You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.
Yes.
Not really. Libraries function within the constraints of licensing. They buy physical copies of materials and license digital copies.
With libraries the content creators (and yes distributors) are still being paid for their works AND information gets to sprees freely.
I’d argue that libraries are superior piracy.
Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.
You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.