Open Library Efforts
Oct. 22nd, 2007 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyAs much as it pains me to post an article from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5089&en=ea76b3aeca3a55a6&ex=1350792000&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
Apparently, there is an intellectual property war going on between Google, Microsoft, and the public libraries of the United States. The battlefield is the digitally scanned copies of books, and what rights are reserved by who did the scanning. I think the this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Can you attach covenants to material in the public domain, just by transferring it to a different medium? If I take the book from Google, and hand it to Microsoft, under what basis can Google complain? The contracts between the libraries and Google cannot bind me, I do not think.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5089&en=ea76b3aeca3a55a6&ex=1350792000&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
Apparently, there is an intellectual property war going on between Google, Microsoft, and the public libraries of the United States. The battlefield is the digitally scanned copies of books, and what rights are reserved by who did the scanning. I think the this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Can you attach covenants to material in the public domain, just by transferring it to a different medium? If I take the book from Google, and hand it to Microsoft, under what basis can Google complain? The contracts between the libraries and Google cannot bind me, I do not think.
