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stbalbach |
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March 24, 2011 01:27:00pm |
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Re: Google Book settlement denied |
Agreed. If Google was serious about making orphan works more available, it would build and sell an affordable book scanning machine, and encourage individuals to sort it out on a per book basis (like at Internet Archive) using the law the way it is written, instead of trying to create new law or (possibly now) lobby Congress to give them special rights. They have too much money and are trying to re-write the rules to their favor, it's like Disney and copyright extension.
I'm surprised there is not a collaborative project, like Project Gutenberg or LibriVox, but focused on scanning books published in the 1923-1963(?) time-frame (the ones that have not been renewed) using DIY book scanners and books from libraries.
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stbalbach |
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March 25, 2011 11:35:41am |
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Re: Google Book settlement denied |
Yes, there is a gold mine of material out there waiting to be digitized.
I just found
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center. It looks like a project to focus on the post-1923 works. It says:
"..this center acts as a clearinghouse for eBooks presumed to be public domain in the United States, but whose copyright data are not yet sufficient to pass the extreme copyright research required for inclusion in the general Project Gutenberg collection as per copyright requirements in the United States. There will also be Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers for "life +50," "life +70" countries, and hopefully even for "life +60" countries such as India, Venezuela, etc."
For example I found a book there I want to read,
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), originally housed at
World Public Library, since formatted and
uploaded to Internet Archive's Community Text library. Interesting tangle of projects.
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