RE: Internet Archive's Open-Text Archives Initiative

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

David Goodman noted that he wasn't aware that any of the Google/library
projects would be scanning books still under copyright.

According to an article in the Detroit Free Press, Google will be scanning
everything in the University of Michigan library (which it apparently will
not do with many of the other libraries in the project).

If a book is in the public domain, the user will be able to look at the
entire text of the book. If a book is still under copyright, the full text
will be searchable, but "the university will put a short synopsis of the
material online, with information that links to the publisher or libraries
where the work can be obtained."

Full text of the Detroit Free Press article is available at:

http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend14e_20041214.htm

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of David Goodman
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: RE: Internet Archive's Open-Text Archives Initiative

I am not aware that any of the present projects intend to concentrate of
books still under copyright (If I am not correct, I would appreciate a
correction.)