Yahoo Back Alliance To Digitize Books
Posted by nullbit on October 3, 2005, 4:44 pm
Amidst the recent controversy over Google's library scanning project, Yahoo! have stepped up alongside the likes of Internet Archive, O'Reilly Media, and Adobe, to launch The Open Content Alliance, an all-round more publisher friendly solution.
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!
The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the content owners and contributors. Contributors to the OCA must agree to the principles set forth in the Call for Participation.
The Open Content Alliance is opt-in only for copyrighted material, unlike Google's planned book digitization project which is opt-out. This key difference will likely avoid the type of fears publishers have expressed with Google's program over content being re-distributed outside of their control. Many critics of Google's project have already become members of the new alliance.
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