[Web4lib] RE: More on the Open Content Alliance

[Drew, Bill]

Maybe its time for Google to make the Google Print project "open source"
in that all of the technology is shared with the public.
Also, what is meant by "IP" below?  I must have missed its definition in
all of this great conversation.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:24 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] RE: More on the Open Content Alliance
>
> Google is trying to have it both ways: the Google Print project will
> make it possible to search the full text of book collections held by
> some of the leading research libraries on the planet. It sounds almost
> pro bono.  Publishers are terrified of IP implications, but now we
> learn that the technology for doing the digitization is also secret
> and presumably IP that will be proprietary to Google.  A cynic might
> conclude that the University of Michigan et all are really serving the
> role of subsidiaries of Google -- granting the company access not only
> to intellectual property that libraries do not own, but also letting
> Google hide any details of the tools and techniques the project
> entails. .
>