[luckylion]

> But let's be clear, people very seldom 'create' knowledge, they extend existing knowledge.

That's semantics, you can just as easily frame that as "creating knowledge that will be added to the wealth of human knowledge".

The point is that IA's idea about unlimited parallel lending (that is, essentially, a free download portal) is a problem unless there's a different way to compensate the authors & publishers. I don't think they suggested a different way and are trying to make it about "knowledge itself", and not their unilateral abandonment of laws & contracts.