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Yahoo Launches Online Library Project With Publisher Support

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 3, 2005 - 4:01am.
San Francisco - Yahoo has joined with partners including the Internet Archive, the European Archive, the U.K. National Archives, the University of California and HP to form the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which will attempt to digitize the world's public domain and copyrighted literature and make it available online for all search engines to index. Yahoo's project hopes to please publishers were rival Google's Library Project has attracted litigation; the Open Content Alliance will only include material submitted by publishers, whereas Google has been sued by the Authors Guild for not asking permission before including works in its index. "We welcome the launch of the OCA because its approach respects the rights of publishers and other copyright owners," said Sally Morris, CEO of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). The OCA archive's content will range from historical works of fiction to children's books to highly specialized engineering whitepapers. "We are honored to participate in a program that helps further our vision of expanding all human knowledge by working with content creators to make their content available to a growing online audience," said David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president of search content.
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