Comments on: Book digitisation projects: Google Print and all that http://www.lawfont.com/2005/11/01/book-digitisation-projects-google-print-and-all-that/ an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:51:01 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LawFont » Google Book Search — public domain works now available http://www.lawfont.com/2005/11/01/book-digitisation-projects-google-print-and-all-that/comment-page-1/#comment-2379 LawFont » Google Book Search — public domain works now available Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:08:25 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/?p=109#comment-2379 [...] Remember Project Gutenberg? 19,000 public domain titles are currently available at what is one of the first book digitization projects. The focus in this project is on providing the text (generally as ASCII files or HTML) of out-of-copyright works. By contrast, the aim of Google Book Search is to provide scanned images of actual published works — both in copyright and in the public domain. As I’ve commented before, Google’s approach to generating its library of scanned works has been controversial, particularly to publishers of works contained in libraries that are participating in the project. [...] [...] Remember Project Gutenberg? 19,000 public domain titles are currently available at what is one of the first book digitization projects. The focus in this project is on providing the text (generally as ASCII files or HTML) of out-of-copyright works. By contrast, the aim of Google Book Search is to provide scanned images of actual published works — both in copyright and in the public domain. As I’ve commented before, Google’s approach to generating its library of scanned works has been controversial, particularly to publishers of works contained in libraries that are participating in the project. [...]

]]> By: Michael N http://www.lawfont.com/2005/11/01/book-digitisation-projects-google-print-and-all-that/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Michael N Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:17:58 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/?p=109#comment-55 Excellent overview of the issues, Sarah. This story might also be apposite: "What's So Eminent About Public Domain?" http://www.reason.com/hod/tl103105.shtml In consiering the Googel Print litigation, and the effect of DRM generally, the author suggests that "...if the Authors' Guild prevails, it will leave copyright owners with much greater control over how their content is used than they have traditionally enjoyed in the pre-Internet world. And even if they lose, readers will still have to purchase the full book if they want to read more than a few sentences...." Excellent overview of the issues, Sarah.

This story might also be apposite: “What’s So Eminent About Public Domain?” http://www.reason.com/hod/tl103105.shtml

In consiering the Googel Print litigation, and the effect of DRM generally, the author suggests that “…if the Authors’ Guild prevails, it will leave copyright owners with much greater control over how their content is used than they have traditionally enjoyed in the pre-Internet world. And even if they lose, readers will still have to purchase the full book if they want to read more than a few sentences….”

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