Google rebuffed
It seems that all is not well in paradise. Several United States-base libraries have turned down offers both from Google and Microsoft to have their book collection scanned and become part of an on-line database. And the reason for this? Restrictions Google and Microsoft want to be in place for the digital collection.
And instead some libraries have choosen to sign up with Open Content Alliance, a similar effort from nonprofit effort created by Internet Archive’s founder and director Brewster Kahle. This group includes more than 80 libraries and research institutions, like the Smithsonian.
Libraries that agree to work with Google must agree to a set of terms, which include making the material unavailable to other commercial search services. Microsoft places a similar restriction on the books it converts to electronic form. The Open Content Alliance, by contrast, is making the material available to any search service.
Google pays to scan the books and does not directly profit from the resulting Web pages, although the books make its search engine more useful and more valuable. The libraries can have their books scanned again by another company or organization for dissemination more broadly.
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