While Google’s biggest search competitor, Yahoo, had declined to comment on the lawsuit or to offer details on the future of the Open Content Alliance, a non-profit book-scanning program to which it has made a small contribution, OCA founder Brewster Kahle, whose Internet Archive is heading up the project, said that the publishers’ lawsuit was counterproductive and could hinder the development of digital protocols and distribution methods. “This horserace is something you might want if you were a lawyer, but it’s not what you’d want if you were a businessperson,” he said. “This could get really messy in a way that will damage progress.” Kahle added that the OCA welcomes Google’s project despite the fact that the AAP lawsuit mentions OCA as one of the various means publishers have developed to make electronic copies “consistent with their exclusive rights under copyright.”
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/23/2005 01:04:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
