Yahoo backs digital library plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4304192.stm

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.

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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.

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On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:37:26 -0500, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com>
wrote:

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.

Yes and I wonder where they got that idea from-

http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

LOL

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:09:04 GMT, David
<seodave (AT) search-engine-optimization-services (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:37:26 -0500, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com
wrote:

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.

Yes and I wonder where they got that idea from-

http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

LOL

David

Same place you did, probably.

BIGGER LOL

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David <seodave (AT) search-engine-optimization-services (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:37:26 -0500, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com
wrote:

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.

Yes and I wonder where they got that idea from-

http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

Oh, yeah, now I remember, that site was the "original" one :-D

I hope you found another source of free content :-)

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Davémon <nospam (AT) nowhere (DOT) no> wrote:

David wrote:
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:37:26 -0500, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com
wrote:

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.

Yes and I wonder where they got that idea from-

I rather think it was:
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Isn't that where David gets it as well? :-)

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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:43:49 +0100, Davémon <nospam (AT) nowhere (DOT) no> wrote:

John Bokma wrote:
Davémon <nospam (AT) nowhere (DOT) no> wrote:
David wrote:

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:37:26 -0500, Paul <webmaster (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com
wrote:


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.

Yes and I wonder where they got that idea from-

I rather think it was:
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Isn't that where David gets it as well? :-)

I missed that the classic literature was actually one of Daves. <:-p

Shakespeare, Bacon; all Dave...

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