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Since 2012 [Memory of the World](https://www.memoryoftheworld.org) has been developing and publicly supporting scenarios for massive disobedience against the intellectual property regime regulating the production and circulation of knowledge in the digital realm. Its starting point was simple: that the public library is the institutional form societies have devised to make knowledge and culture accessible to all their members regardless of social or economic status.
# The public library and shadow libraries
# The public library and the shadow libraries
There is a political consensus that this principle of access is fundamental to the purpose of a modern society. Yet, as digital networks have radically expanded the access to literature and scientific research, public libraries have largely been denied the ability to extend to digital objects the kind of de-commodified access they provide in the world of print.