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Originally Posted by Brian
Unlike Google's Library Project, another digitizing project for which Google is being sued by the Author's Guild, works not in the public domain are only digitized after the copyright holders opt-in
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In other words, they are going to copy Project Gutenberg and add a whole bunch of works that no one cares about.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Seriously, with copyright being so long today, most of the works that we care about are not in the Public Domain - but neither are they being published or offered in any other form. The opt-in is nice, but it assumes that the copyright holder even knows that he holds the copyright. And you can bet that most big content holders won't part with any of their "property" willingly.
So excuse me if I give a yawn to the Open Content Alliance.
