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Has anyone read about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html?_r=1
Google is attempting to get the digital rights to millions of so called orphan books. These are books which are out of print (OOP) and the rights holders are unavailable. Most of these books are from an era when digital rights were never even thought of. They are heavily made up of obscure and academic texts, but valuable none the less. There are many gems among them I am sure, the estimate is over 7 million texts. Google wantd to claim the sole digital rights to these books...
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I am still torn over my excitment to have access to so many unavailable texts, but should Google be able to claim the rights to them? They have scanned them at their own expense and collected and cared for them...but was anyone else even given the chance? Thoughts? Ideas? Anyone?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html?_r=1
Google is attempting to get the digital rights to millions of so called orphan books. These are books which are out of print (OOP) and the rights holders are unavailable. Most of these books are from an era when digital rights were never even thought of. They are heavily made up of obscure and academic texts, but valuable none the less. There are many gems among them I am sure, the estimate is over 7 million texts. Google wantd to claim the sole digital rights to these books...
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I am still torn over my excitment to have access to so many unavailable texts, but should Google be able to claim the rights to them? They have scanned them at their own expense and collected and cared for them...but was anyone else even given the chance? Thoughts? Ideas? Anyone?