Terence,
The five Libraries are University of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard,
Oxford and New York Publice library. In the case of Oxford they intend
to publish all books prior to 1900 so copyright may not be an issue. I
believe in the case of Michigan they intend to publish 8 million books.
I believe that it is the full content which will be accessible via
search but to access the entire publication accessors will need to pay a
fee. This information came from Detroit Public Radio. Others may have
more complete information.
Rob
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>>> Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> 12/17/04 12:52PM >>>
Terry,
It looks as if Google intends to make public domain material available
in full and make copyrighted material available as a few snippets that
would allow someone to determine relevance to a search.
Gunnar
On Dec 17, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Terence Love wrote:
> On the Google/library issue, I'll be interested in seeing how that
> goes. There are many publishers who have supplied books to
> libraries with explicit conditions that they may not be 'copied by
any
> mechanical or other means' or something similar. I'm not sure from
the
> information so far whether Google is proposing to index or fully copy
> texts. Seems an implication is that Google's proposal if implemented
> will reduce the commercial value and meaning of copyright.
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