Yahoo! backs new digital book group
A Reuters newswire article by Eric Auchard, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Yahoo Inc. is set on Monday to unveil a consortium that aims to make books, audio and video more easily accessible online, while addressing publishers' objections about the dangers to copyright.
The non-profit Internet Archive, libraries at the University of California and the University of Toronto and technology suppliers Hewlett-Packard Co. and Adobe Systems Inc. are among the founders of the group.
The organization, known as the Open Content Alliance (OCA), plans to create a unified storehouse of both public domain and copyrighted materials, hosted by the Internet Archive.
This potentially vast library would be searchable and freely available to anyone, whether individual Web surfers or commercial sites, its promoters said.
posted by Fergie @ 10/03/2005 05:00:00 AM
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