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@article{Clapp1968TheCD,
  title={The Copyright Dilemma: A Librarian's View},
  author={Verner W. Clapp},
  journal={The Library Quarterly},
  year={1968},
  volume={38},
  pages={352 - 387},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144624749}
}

A LIBRARIAN s view' of the "copyright dilemma" involves, in the first place, his views of copyright. What this has been until recently can be very simply stated: copyright has seemed to him to be a necessary and desirable monopoly, justified by the public interest, for assuring to authors a reward for their labors and for protecting publishers from unfair competition. The literature of American librarianship bears a century-long witness to this point of view on the part of librarians, and…

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