[musicale]

> "is not made available to the public in that format outside the premises of the library or archives"

This seems 1) at odds with the point of a library and 2) a death knell for CDL.

Assuming that is the correct interpretation, then the law is pretty obnoxious in terms of preventing libraries from format shifting their collections from physical to digital.

It doesn't seem like good public policy to:

1) Try to make digital copies less portable and usable than their physical counterparts

2) Prevent libraries from converting their physical - or digital - lending collections from one format to another

[rcoveson]

It sucks, but the courtroom is not the place to change it when it’s spelled out so plainly. The judge would’ve been wrong to rule any other way.