One Step Closer to a National Digital Library - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Can the nonprofit world create a national digital library to put America's collective intellectual wealth within everyone's reach?
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the idea of "a Digital Public Library of America," envisioning it as "an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources" drawn from the country's libraries, archives, museums, and universities.
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the biggest obstacle to the Digital Public Library, in his view, is not money but "finding our way through our baroque copyright laws," especially those that govern so-called orphan works, whose copyright status is unclear.
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