Charlie Barlow writes: “Roger Schonfeld’s latest piece in Scholarly Kitchen, ‘Lessons Learned from a Fair Use Defeat,’ feels unnecessarily defeatist in assessing libraries’ controlled digital lending (CDL) efforts. From my perspective, CDL has significant potential. The recent Second Circuit Court ruling against the Internet Archive marked a setback for one interpretation of CDL, but as the Authors Alliance explains, it does not prohibit CDL universally. It leaves room for future implementations that could better meet fair use standards, especially given the lack of a digital first-sale doctrine.”

Library Futures, Oct. 7; Scholarly Kitchen, Sept. 30; Authors Alliance, Sept. 5