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Miller S.

Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others [1]. Scanning for the Open Content Alliance is administered by the Internet Archive, which also provides permanent storage and access through its website.
  • OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA digitizes copyrighted works only after asking and receiving permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search digitizes copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
  • The OCA is, in part, a response to Google Book Search, which was announced in October 2004.
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  • Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project [2]. However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
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    This wikipedia page talks about the OCA(Open Content Alliance). This website tells how this alliance is contributing to the growth of Open Content and how it is helping the idea of Open Content to become more widely used throughout the world.
Honor Moorman

WNYC - Soundcheck: When Free Culture Isn't Free (January 19, 2010) - 0 views

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    The rise of digital culture sparked a firestorm of debate about copyright, fair-use and creativity. Today: a Soundcheck Smackdown debate about the open-source movement in the arts.
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