Copyrights/Free ebrary sites

[Juliette Hirt <juliette@ebrary.com>]

There have been two posts recently about the application of 
copyrights to ebrary's new free public-interest information 
centers on natural disasters 
(http://site.ebrary.com/lib/disaster/home.action) and H1N1 
influenza (http://h1n1.ebrary.com/home.action).

These were grassroots efforts by some of our employees, who 
wanted the public to be able to use our technology to quickly 
find the useful information they were looking for, in the vast 
sea of publicly-available government and public-domain documents. 
In some cases, the rights-holders in copyright-protected 
information have also agreed to make their materials freely 
available on these sites, so the sites contain a mix of protected 
and unprotected content.

ebrary does not intend to restrict anyone's use of any government 
works or public domain documents. Updated information will be 
appearing on the site shortly, specifying that our generic 
copyright statement does not apply to these documents. I 
apologize for any confusion.

Best regards,

Juliette Hirt
General Counsel, ebrary