Pay-per-use discussion
Rep. Rick Boucher was filling in last week at Lawrence Lessig's blog. His last post, from Thursday, talked about fair use vs. pay per use and mentioned librarians specifically:
Whenever I speak with librarians about fair use or the Copyright Act more generally, I inevitably hear them express concerns that we run the risk of becoming a pay per use society, one in which content is available only for a fee. I am concerned that the bookmobiles we all grew up with and their modern day equivalents will go the way of the eight track and the reel-to-reel, replaced by a world in which access to information will depend on the ability to pay and, worse, a world in which a payment gets you only a license to view or listen to something, not to actually own it.
The comments are interesting, and it's not too late to participate, if you are so inclined.