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The Open Content Alliance is a consortium of non-profit and for-profit groups dedicated to building a free archive of digital text and multimedia. It was conceived in 2005 by Yahoo and the Internet Archive. It was conceived in response to Google Book Search's closed nature, and aims to keep public domain works in the public domain on-line. These results will then be used in the search results of participating search engines. You can see a sample of the open content at Open Library *. OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA intends to digitize copyrighted works only after asking (and receiving) permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search plans to digitize copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so by November 1, 2005 ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
Involved organizations Biodiversity Heritage Library, a cooperative project of: See also | ||||||||
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