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Monday, October 03, 2005

Yahoo-Backed Alliance to Open Web Library

Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers — something rival Google Inc. hasn't been able to achieve.

The Open Content Alliance, a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners, plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio. Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors, said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search content.

Other participants in the alliance announced Monday include Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O'Reilly Media Inc., the University of California and the University of Toronto.

Although Yahoo will power the search engine located at http://www.opencontentalliance.org, all the content will be made available so it can be indexed by all the other major search engines, including Google's.

The alliance won't include any copyrighted material unless it receives the explicit permission of a publisher or author. That restriction means the alliance is bound to be missing much of the material available in brick-and-mortar libraries.

In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible, Google plans to index millions of copyrighted books from three major university libraries — Harvard, Stanford and Michigan — unless the copyright holder notifies the company by Nov. 1 about which volumes should be excluded from the search engine index.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good boy good Information , but when is it going to be launched ??????????????????????

11:32 PM  
Blogger Susan said...

Hey, this is great information. Something worth while to look into.

8:48 PM  
Blogger sikandar said...

check the url http://www.opencontentalliance.org for more information on this

10:04 AM  
Blogger sarahintampa said...

Now how come Yahoo is going to be able to do that and Google is being sued over the same type of thing?

9:21 AM  

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