I don't understand how libraries can legally operate. The authors of the books don't receive royalties for ever time their work is checked out, do they? If I were Dan Brown or Stephanie Meyer, I might be mad that my best-selling works of popular-reading culture could just be read by anyone with a piece of plastic and I wouldn't see a nickle of profit except for that initial purchase.
And what about movies and music? How is it OK to watch/listen to them without paying for them? Why don't folks in the entertainment business get angry that people are watching their work without them being paid for it? How is that different than media piracy?
This has been "things I don't know"
1 comment:
thanks for completely blowing my mind...
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