Is it legal to create an e-library website?

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Eugene2012-06-07 20:32:16

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Eugene, 2012-06-07 20:32:16

Good time of the day.
I want to create a fundamentally new ( ~~read: innovative~~ ) website of the electronic library.
As resources, I have a head on my shoulders, a budget in my pocket and the resources of a large IT company.

Dear Habrausers, tell me: Is it legal to create an electronic library site?

What will the publication of books for reading (not downloading) on the site threaten me with, how to avoid possible problems with the law?
Or is it better not to do this, but to implement a good catalog similar to the site Kinopoisk.ru?

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Vyacheslav Golovanov, 2012-06-07
@Qwofer

You can start spending the budget with a lawyer. Free consultations are appropriate in case of enthusiastic projects.

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Maxim Shishkin, 2012-06-07
@lsoul

Threatening you to publish will be a liability - from civil to criminal.
If you want to avoid problems, sign license agreements with authors and publishers.

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kafeman, 2012-06-07
@kafeman

fundamentally new

Do you want to create www.bookmate.com by any chance ?