First Sale Doctrine vs. Public Lending Right The US does not adopt the Public Lending Right. The policy is to encourage public reading and use of the books which would likely be frustrated if libraries were forced to incur an additional expense to an author upon each rental. Thus, libraries would have little incentive to purchase books from more obscure authors. Do you agree? Are there aspects of the Public Lending Right that you like more than the First Sale Doctrine? If so, what are they