Subject: [Web4lib] Open Content Alliance announced
The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search content. Other participants in the alliance announced Monday include Adobe
Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O'Reilly Media Inc., the University of California and the University of Toronto.
More at:
NYTimes article: <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-
Online-Book-Project.html>
Project Web Site: < http://www.opencontentalliance.org/>
UC Press Release: <http://www.opencontentalliance.org/UC.pdf>
Roy Tennant
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We'll have to see if this constitutes an end-run around the copyright issues that are plaguing the Google project.
What if someone copyrighted something and nobody read it? Is there copyright zen?
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