Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Eccellente iniziativa populista

Una grande notizia per quelli che non possono permettersi l'acquisto di
libri.
Un internet come si deve!
Giano
University of Calif. joins Google book scan push
Wed Aug 9, 2006 12:08am ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The University of California has joined Google
Inc.'s bid to scan the book collections of the world's great libraries, the
organizations said on Tuesday, marking renewed momentum for a project nearly
derailed by stiff resistance from publishers.
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Si, sfortunatamente le pagine dei libri pubblicate non possono essere 
fisicamente copiaincollate. 
Era cosi' due mesi fa. Non so se riusciranno a togliere le restrizioni, 
ma ne dubito, persino per gli autori fuori copyright, perche' sono 
riproduzioni pseudo-anastatiche.
Grato se hai/avete info in piu'.
Am.

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"amalric" <ama...@TOGLIMIalice.it> wrote in message
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#_Qui di seguito tutto il resto dell'articolo.
IO non l'ho letto, perche`IO so' stanco...IO vo`a dormi' presto la sera e
dopo una calda zuppa vege-organica. :-}slurp.
Giano
The University of California (UC) holds 100 libraries on 10 campuses across
the state and ranks as the largest research and academic library in the
world. California joins Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, the University of
Michigan and the New York Public Library in the Google Book Search project.
Google is working with the U.S. Library of Congress on a similar effort.
For Google, the new momentum for its Book Search Project is the latest in a
string of high-profile deals it has announced over the past week in which it
signed a major search and advertising contract with News Corp., the owner of
MySpace.com, and a video advertising and delivery deal with Viacom, owner of
MTV.
"We know that we will be digitizing several million volumes but not the
entire 34 million" books in the California system, said Jennifer Colvin, a
spokeswoman for the University of California's digital library arm
(
http://www.cdlib.org/
)
But authors' and publishers' groups sued Google last year to block scanning
of copyrighted library books, arguing that, akin to Napster's effect on the
music industry, the digitizing of books might tempt consumers to stop buying
printed works.   Continued...
Google has countered that it is creating the electronic equivalent of a
library card catalog for copyrighted works and that library project only
plans to publish the full texts of out-of-copyright books in the public
domain.
For works under copyright protection, Google Book Search
(
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
) publishes only short
snippets, a few sentences on either side of mentions of words a user has
searched for. What online readers see is similar to Amazon.com's "Search
Inside the Book" feature.
SCANNING COPYRIGHTED BOOKS
In response to the legal threats, several of Google's library backers said
last year they would proceed with the scanning of public domain works, but
deferred plans to digitize copyrighted books in order to steer clear of the
controversy.
Michigan was alone in saying it planned to proceed with the scanning of both
in-copyright and out-of-copyright materials.
Colvin said the University of California Libraries shared Michigan's view
that Google's project enjoys "fair use" protection and had agreed to scan
copyrighted works.
"UC and Google are both really committed to respecting copyrights," Colvin
said.
A contract was only hammered out two days ago, Colvin said, adding that book
scanning should begin within several weeks.
The University of California, along with the University of Toronto, are
among the founders of a competing book scanning project called the Open
Content Alliance (OCA), which is backed by Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp..
Continued...
In contrast to Google, the OCA has treaded gingerly around the issue of
scanning copyrighted works and is focused on public domain works. Together
with the non-profit Internet Archive, the OCA, is aiming to create an online
clearinghouse for historic books, audio and films.
The Google Book Search project was a far larger in scope than its
undertaking with the Yahoo-Microsoft funded group.
"OCA is on a smaller scale," Colvin said. "There won't be as many books as
we are doing through the Google partnership."
Google Books product manager Adam Smith confirmed that the project would
scan books numbering "in the millions," but declined to offer specific
targets in terms of the number of books or the scope of financing Google
planned to provide.


L'unica cosa che posso dire è che il titolo è sbagliato.
C'è ben poco di populismo e molto di ragionato
Ciao! 

 Un internet come si deve!
No, solo un nuovo business con i vecchi mezzi
Ciao! 

 Ciao!

 Grazie, se ne sentiva il bisogno...
Se se ne sentiva, non lo so, ma di certo si vedeva.
Ciao!