Open Content Alliance Embodies Open Source Movement
Information Today › Vol. 26 Nbr. 1, January 2009
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Late last October, news sources headlined the settlement of the Google Book Search copyright suit. The suit pitted Google, whose Book Search project involves large-scale scanning of copyrighted books, against publishers and authors who claimed that the scanning violated their copyrights. According to announced settlement terms, Google will establish fee-based access to copyrighted books, and the revenue will be shared among Google and the copyright holders. There is a thriving, anti-Google, counterrevolutionary open access (OA) project: the Open Content Alliance (OCA), a partnership of more than 100 academic, public, and special libraries as well as important private-sector information players. Google's model is proprietary and now fee-based; OCA's is OA without restrictions on access or use. The fact that OCA now contains mostly legacy material limits its value for research and reference. OCA was formed in part in reaction to Google's looming privatization of a sizable portion of the country's intellectual capital.
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Open Content Alliance Embodies Open Source Movement
Late last October, news sources headlined the settlement of the Google Book Search copyright suit. The suit pitted Google, whose Book Search project involves large-scale scanning of copyrighted books, against publishers and authors who claimed that the scanning violated their copyrights. According to announced settlement terms, Google will establish feebased acces...
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