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It seems to me that the First Sale Doctrine makes library lending (among any other use of an individual instance of copyrighted material) legal.

Unless you're arguing that the First Sale Doctrine was only created because libraries are older than modern copyright, I don't think I agree.

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Experiment: try applying the First Sale Doctrine to digital music, video, and software downloads.

That's pretty clearly exactly what they're arguing.

For every application of FSD that applies to a lending library, it seems like there are 99 or more that apply to everyday lending, modification, repair, or resale concerns. Even if libraries didn't exist, I think we'd have something like first sale doctrine.

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