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Now the Google project has been joined by another ambitious plan: the Open Content Alliance (OCA), announced in October 2005 (www.opencontentalliance.org). OCA is a collaboration between Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, and a number of other organizations including the University of California, Prelinger Archives, European Archive, National Archives (UK), the University of Toronto, O'Reilly Media, HP, Adobe, and my employer, RLG.
A substantial ecommons which are millions of digital items that can be used directly and as the basis for derivative works without infringing copyright is what you get when you combine a four-year-old licensing system and two possibly complementary projects to digitize substantial quantities of print information. If you do not know about Creative Commons (CC), you should. Despite misguided attacks from both ends of a copyright control spectrum, CC offers one of the most balanced and low-cost ways to create a pool of common econtent that can be distributed and used to build new content without constant fear of legal repercussions. Open Content Alliance encourages the use of CC licenses whenever than makes sense.See the full content of this document
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Building the Econtent Commons
What do you get when you combine a four-year-old licensing system and two possibly complementary projects to digitize substantial quantities of print information? With luck, a substantial ecommons: millions of digital items that can be used directly ...
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