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[EMCE Hammer]

I think this sums up best why it's not legal and what differentiates the site from a library:

"You got to love the "publicly displayed without authorization" part. See, There was the loophole he didn't cover in his "Library" analogy - A Library buys a book from a publisher/distriubtor and it's "First Use Doctrine" - meaning they can do anything with the physical copy - lone it,rent it,sell it, burn in (God forbid) but not "Copy it".

The books on html were copies of physical books - and violated first-use doctine"

[LadyZod]

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For anyone else following this legal clusterf--k.

I've been sitting here waiting for the shoe to drop, mostly due to the legal gray that the owner of HMTLCOMICS was spewing... I almost forgot the letter of the law. COPYright. You can lend your stuff, but you can't make a copy.

I can't wait to see this go to trial (if this guy continues his misguided argument.)

[boynightwing]

A few days ago I went out and bought Superman Red Son. It was one of the only things I read on HTML Comics that I didn't actually own. I read Robin Year One, Batgirl Year One, and started reading Avengers vs Transformers (which turned out to be awful). I owned the Robin and Batgirl stories but just felt like reading them again without digging them out.