diglib: Open Content Alliance/Yahoo library digitization plan

["Andrew R. Bonamici" <bonamici@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Dear diglib:

FYI; please excuse any duplication.

ARB

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> Yahoo backs digital library plan
> Yahoo is taking on Google with its own digital archive of books, audio
> and video. 
>
> As part of the Open Content Alliance, Yahoo will help digitise 18,000
> works of American literature plus material from national and European
> archives. 
>
> It hopes to avoid the legal action that has dogged Google's plan by
> adopting an opt-in policy on copyrighted works. 
>
> The Authors Guild is suing Google over its plan to digitise books and
> make them viewable without prior permission. 
>
> Reading room 
>
> As well as Yahoo, the Open Content Alliance also includes the non-profit
> Internet Archive, libraries from the universities of California and
> Toronto, Adobe and Hewlett-Packard. 
>
> The information to be digitised will include books, speeches, audio,
> video and music. 
>
> The Open Content Alliance said it would start with works that were in the
> public domain as well as those books in copyright that their owners were
> happy to be freely browsable online. 
>
> "We are only including copyrighted content with the express
> permission of the copyright holder," said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's
> vice president of search content. 
>
> The core of the Open Content Alliance library will be 18,000 classic
> works of American literature that include writing by Mark Twain, Henry
> James and Edgar Allan Poe. 
>
> Currently Britain's National Archive and the European Archive are
> deciding what material to contribute to the project. 
>
> The end result will be a huge online collection freely available to web
> users. The first works to be digitised should be online by the end of the
> year and all 18,000 works should be available through the net by the
> close of 2006. 
>
> By contrast to Alliance's "opt-in" policy, Google's rival
> digital plan has adopted an "opt-out" approach that will
> digitise all works in several libraries, mainly university libraries from
> Harvard, Stanford and Michigan, unless copyright owners object. 
>
> Story from BBC NEWS:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4304192.stm
>
> Published: 2005/10/03 10:58:38 GMT
>
> © BBC MMV

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