[pd-discuss] BL and google digitise books

Tue Jun 21 08:52:45 UTC 2011

> Unfortunately even after the calculation is done and material is PD,
> it is not clear that digital copies will be open as in
> opendefinition.org (and hence free for anyone to use without
> restriction).
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> E.g. I understand the material from BL is unfortunately still rights
> encumbered [1], possibly due to contractual obligations (with
> Google?).
>

Would the access conditions here be a worthy battle?

Open Rights Groups is meant to campaign on this sort of thing, but taking on
Google and BL would require a supportive effort from our wider networks,
even if other organisations do not have campaigning mandate.

Javier

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