Digital Ownership Agreement – DPLA Ebooks

"The purchases of these title(s) by the library constitutes a sale, not a license.

• Contract language: With respect to a Particular Copy of a given Digital Work, a transfer of rights in such Copy that are substantially equivalent to the rights such Permitted Library would have in a physical print copy (e.g., a paperback or hard cover book) of the applicable literary work purchased by such Permitted Library under the first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109….

With this purchase, the library has the right to:

• lend the Copy to one End User at a time,
• share the Copy to any other library that is part of a consortium or cooperative,
• display or perform, or permit the display or performance of, such Particular Copy on one personal computer or hand-held device at a time,
• host, or have another individual or entity Host, such Digital Work on behalf of such Library Customer,
• reproduce the source code or object code encoding such Digital Work as necessary to transfer such Particular Copy from one piece of hardware (including, without limitation, a server, computer, or hand-held device) to another piece of hardware, and
• prepare derivative works of the source code or object code encoding such Digital Work as necessary to change the format of such Digital Work (collectively, the “First Sale Rights”)...."