[pd-discuss] Hathitrust locks public domain books; amasses scans from others, and gives full access only to partners members

Tue Jun 21 15:43:50 UTC 2011

I cannot believe that googlebooks imposed to hathitrust to NOT ALLOW
DOWNLOAD OF PUBLIC DOMAIN TO EVERYBODY

it is no matter of *BULK DOWNLOAD*. There are so many ways to avoid BULK
DOWNLOAD (a simple recaptcha, for instance)

in fact, if Googlebooks imposed to Hathitrust to give not access to FULL
PDF books, why hathitrust gives access to PAYING MEMBERS INSTITUTIONS?

it sounds to me like a kind of SPECULATION, made restricting PUBLIC
DOMAIN MATERIAL access only to people paying

I would to read a googlebooks statement in order to clarify this
question
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