Yahoo! To Launch Digitization Project to Rival Google's
Yahoo! announced it will launch a library-digitization project known as the Open Content Alliance in cooperation with the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others. The idea is to digitize books in archives around the world and make them searchable through any Web search engine and downloadable for free.
Unlike Google's controversial and much challenged digitization efforts, Yahoo! claims that it will scan and digitize only texts in the public domain, except where the copyright holder has expressly given permission.
Other articles on the subject:
Unlike Google's controversial and much challenged digitization efforts, Yahoo! claims that it will scan and digitize only texts in the public domain, except where the copyright holder has expressly given permission.
Other articles on the subject:
- In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books (New York Times)
- Yahoo-backed alliance to open web library (Business Week)
- Yahoo to digitize public domain books (ZDNet)
- Consortium to digitize classic books for Web (San Jose Mercury News)
- A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut
- Press page of the "Open Content Alliance"
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