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	<title>Comments on: Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters</title>
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		<title>By: cedImmind</title>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2009/02/04/google-robert-darnton-and-the-digital-republic-of-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-784</link>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spending cash on new home furniture to create our comfy and handy interior room may perhaps not be an selection for those with tiny cash on their hand. They typically opt for applied furnishings, however it includes a few drawbacks. How need to we worth, search and inspect it, is important so here are 5 tips you need to consider for a sensible buying decision.</p>
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		<title>By: Acuerdo de Google Books entra en tierra derecha - Foros de CHW</title>
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		<dc:creator>Acuerdo de Google Books entra en tierra derecha - Foros de CHW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] la respuesta de Paul Courant (economista especializado en la econom?a de los libros o informaci?n). Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters &#124; Au Courant  Courant b?sicamente agrega un &quot;comparado con que&quot;, vale decir explica que efectivamente [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] la respuesta de Paul Courant (economista especializado en la econom?a de los libros o informaci?n). Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters | Au Courant  Courant b?sicamente agrega un &quot;comparado con que&quot;, vale decir explica que efectivamente [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Courant</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Courant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jim,

Michigan has similar rights to UC under the current contract.  Google doesn&#039;t limit our use of our copies of the scans, but copyright law does.  The great thing about the settlement is that it makes it possible to use the scans for reading, both on campus and off.  

Absent the settlement, we can make lawful uses (a good thing) but these are highly limited by copyright law, and we would have negotiate the kinds of uses libraries want to make -- allowing their users to read and annotate  the works, and the like -- rightsholder by rightsholder, if you could find the rightsholders.

Paul</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jim,</p>
<p>Michigan has similar rights to UC under the current contract.  Google doesn&#8217;t limit our use of our copies of the scans, but copyright law does.  The great thing about the settlement is that it makes it possible to use the scans for reading, both on campus and off.  </p>
<p>Absent the settlement, we can make lawful uses (a good thing) but these are highly limited by copyright law, and we would have negotiate the kinds of uses libraries want to make &#8212; allowing their users to read and annotate  the works, and the like &#8212; rightsholder by rightsholder, if you could find the rightsholders.</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Carlile</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Carlile</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 05:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know, it&#039;s interesting. If you look at the individual UC agreement with Google that led to the book scanning project, UC has a much better deal compared to what is being given to other &quot;participating institutions&quot; under the Settlement.

The Settlement says that the host libraries get a full set of their scans, but can only use them for  &quot;non consumptive&quot; research-- they can only provide their people limited access, unless they subscribe just like everyone else.

But the specific UC agreement gives the libraries all of their scans, with the only limitation being that they can&#039;t sell it, charge for it, or give away more than 10 percent of it to any other institution.

What this means is that-- in theory-- UC could provide full downloads of copyrighted works to their users, for free-- but only to their own people.

Of course, if they did, they&#039;d get hit with lawsuits, not being under the protection of the Google umbrella provided by the Settlement.

But maybe not? It does open up to UC users the possibility that they can get free downloads, and being that UC owns copies of these books, would they really be infringing copyrights anywhere if they did provide this service, without paying into the corpus?

I don&#039;t see anything in the Settlement that  restricts this, or amends the previous institutional contracts that Google has negotiated so far with the host libraries.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, it&#8217;s interesting. If you look at the individual UC agreement with Google that led to the book scanning project, UC has a much better deal compared to what is being given to other &#8220;participating institutions&#8221; under the Settlement.</p>
<p>The Settlement says that the host libraries get a full set of their scans, but can only use them for  &#8220;non consumptive&#8221; research&#8211; they can only provide their people limited access, unless they subscribe just like everyone else.</p>
<p>But the specific UC agreement gives the libraries all of their scans, with the only limitation being that they can&#8217;t sell it, charge for it, or give away more than 10 percent of it to any other institution.</p>
<p>What this means is that&#8211; in theory&#8211; UC could provide full downloads of copyrighted works to their users, for free&#8211; but only to their own people.</p>
<p>Of course, if they did, they&#8217;d get hit with lawsuits, not being under the protection of the Google umbrella provided by the Settlement.</p>
<p>But maybe not? It does open up to UC users the possibility that they can get free downloads, and being that UC owns copies of these books, would they really be infringing copyrights anywhere if they did provide this service, without paying into the corpus?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t see anything in the Settlement that  restricts this, or amends the previous institutional contracts that Google has negotiated so far with the host libraries.</p>
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		<title>By: The Google Books settlement: A symposium, and a call for library action &#171; Everybody&#8217;s Libraries</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Google Books settlement: A symposium, and a call for library action &#171; Everybody&#8217;s Libraries</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] readers.  (If you haven&#8217;t read Darnton&#8217;s pessimistic take on the settlement, or the response from Michigan&#8217;s Paul Courant, who was also there, you should.)  But another, I&#8217;d argue, was libraries as active agents in [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] readers.  (If you haven&#8217;t read Darnton&#8217;s pessimistic take on the settlement, or the response from Michigan&#8217;s Paul Courant, who was also there, you should.)  But another, I&#8217;d argue, was libraries as active agents in [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t want to knock what has been a truly amazing accomplishment (and I entirely agree that there appeared to be little prospect of even having this discussion ten years ago) but the concern that I see is that there appears to be few ways to give Google (or the non-profit Book Registry) incentives for change  within a reasonable time frame (say, oh, the five years that one can be in grad school--bit of a bias here). It&#039;s rather frustrating to know that there are five million out-of-print scanned books out there, but the earliest one could possibly hope to access the text (if one is in academia and if the institution subscribes to the entire set) is apparently sometime in mid-2011. It&#039;s equally frustrating to know that if one happens to be outside academia, the possibility of a consumer subscription option for the next five years seems to be virtually nil, no matter how much one might value it or want to pay for it. Similarly, for any one who might be interested in art history...the initial settlement might prove to be rather useless. I am sure that all these initial problems will be eventually remedied--the question is, how can I possibly advocate for some of these problems to be remedied in the next five years, rather then being resigned to the fact that the people who were smart enough to be born ten years later then me will have a marvelous time in grad school?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t want to knock what has been a truly amazing accomplishment (and I entirely agree that there appeared to be little prospect of even having this discussion ten years ago) but the concern that I see is that there appears to be few ways to give Google (or the non-profit Book Registry) incentives for change  within a reasonable time frame (say, oh, the five years that one can be in grad school&#8211;bit of a bias here). It&#8217;s rather frustrating to know that there are five million out-of-print scanned books out there, but the earliest one could possibly hope to access the text (if one is in academia and if the institution subscribes to the entire set) is apparently sometime in mid-2011. It&#8217;s equally frustrating to know that if one happens to be outside academia, the possibility of a consumer subscription option for the next five years seems to be virtually nil, no matter how much one might value it or want to pay for it. Similarly, for any one who might be interested in art history&#8230;the initial settlement might prove to be rather useless. I am sure that all these initial problems will be eventually remedied&#8211;the question is, how can I possibly advocate for some of these problems to be remedied in the next five years, rather then being resigned to the fact that the people who were smart enough to be born ten years later then me will have a marvelous time in grad school?</p>
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		<title>By: Patricia F Anderson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patricia F Anderson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have enjoyed this conversation enormously, and appreciate the range of views and the cogent and informed discussion

I am going to take a small exception with one statement: &quot;But his idea that there was any possibility that Congress and the Library of Congress might have implemented that vision in the 1990s is a utopian fantasy.&quot;

The most influential mentor of my grad school days here at the University of Michigan was Manfred Kochen.  I still have his picture in my office. The final six months of his life were primarily spent as a consultant to and scholar at the Library of Congress. This was in 1989, and he told me himself that the focus of the work there was his effort to persuade LC that the technology was available NOW (meaning then) to scan and make available online the full contents of the Library of Congress. He wrote a substantial report in support of this concept, but the report is actually not even available at the Library of Congress, at least according to my repeated efforts to locate it there and communications to me from their librarians. The report was:

Kochen, Manfred (1988) &quot;Extending the human record&quot;, report to the Library of Congress, Automated Systems Office, Washington.

The only copy I&#039;ve been able to locate is in the papers of JA Goodman in the archives at the University of Calgary in Canada. http://www.ucalgary.ca/archives/Finding%20Aids/GoodmanFindAid.html 

(Hint, hint, I want very much to see a copy. Fred promised me one, but he died before actually sending it.)

In any case, a substantial case was made in the late 1980s for the comprehensive digitization of the collections of the Library of Congress during the 1990s. That this is not commonly known is not surprising given the untimely death of its author and that LC did not preserve in their collections the copies they received.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have enjoyed this conversation enormously, and appreciate the range of views and the cogent and informed discussion</p>
<p>I am going to take a small exception with one statement: &#8220;But his idea that there was any possibility that Congress and the Library of Congress might have implemented that vision in the 1990s is a utopian fantasy.&#8221;</p>
<p>The most influential mentor of my grad school days here at the University of Michigan was Manfred Kochen.  I still have his picture in my office. The final six months of his life were primarily spent as a consultant to and scholar at the Library of Congress. This was in 1989, and he told me himself that the focus of the work there was his effort to persuade LC that the technology was available NOW (meaning then) to scan and make available online the full contents of the Library of Congress. He wrote a substantial report in support of this concept, but the report is actually not even available at the Library of Congress, at least according to my repeated efforts to locate it there and communications to me from their librarians. The report was:</p>
<p>Kochen, Manfred (1988) &#8220;Extending the human record&#8221;, report to the Library of Congress, Automated Systems Office, Washington.</p>
<p>The only copy I&#8217;ve been able to locate is in the papers of JA Goodman in the archives at the University of Calgary in Canada. <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/archives/Finding%20Aids/GoodmanFindAid.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ucalgary.ca/archives/Finding%20Aids/GoodmanFindAid.html</a> </p>
<p>(Hint, hint, I want very much to see a copy. Fred promised me one, but he died before actually sending it.)</p>
<p>In any case, a substantial case was made in the late 1980s for the comprehensive digitization of the collections of the Library of Congress during the 1990s. That this is not commonly known is not surprising given the untimely death of its author and that LC did not preserve in their collections the copies they received.</p>
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		<title>By: Mass Digitization and the Google Monopoly &#171; The Bioinformationista</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mass Digitization and the Google Monopoly &#171; The Bioinformationista</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] an essay on the topic which has received much press, but I believe that Paul Courant&#8217;s response is even more impressive.  Let&#8217;s face it, Google&#8217;s settlement is not ideal.  However, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] an essay on the topic which has received much press, but I believe that Paul Courant&#8217;s response is even more impressive.  Let&#8217;s face it, Google&#8217;s settlement is not ideal.  However, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Buzzy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buzzy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Heather wholeheartedly.  The compromise for public libraries shows a stunning lack of awareness of both how public computing works in public libraries as well as how people access content from library-provided content.  Such lack of flexibility is common reason why libraries reject buying into some electronic resources.

While I understand the desire to limit printing, it seems technically feasible to allow some sort of secure authentication to allow access on any computer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Heather wholeheartedly.  The compromise for public libraries shows a stunning lack of awareness of both how public computing works in public libraries as well as how people access content from library-provided content.  Such lack of flexibility is common reason why libraries reject buying into some electronic resources.</p>
<p>While I understand the desire to limit printing, it seems technically feasible to allow some sort of secure authentication to allow access on any computer.</p>
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		<title>By: Google, Robert Darnton y la República de las letras digital &#124; Ficta eloquentia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Google, Robert Darnton y la República de las letras digital &#124; Ficta eloquentia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] que Paul N. Courant —historiador y economista de la Universidad de Michigan— ha subido a su blog y ha enviado a la New York Review of [...]</description>
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