7 Nov
2005
7 Nov
'05
9:43 p.m.
On 11/7/05, kreeder@mailsnare.net <kreeder@mailsnare.net> wrote:
According to the Associated Press, Microsoft has reached an agreement with "the British Library" (is there only one?) to scan and put online 100,000 books, which will be available free online "next year". The article suggests that the project will be limited to books in the public domain. Microsoft is said to be investing 2.5 million dollars in the project.
Interesting. I hope by public domain they mean public domain in the EU, rather than America -- there are tens of thousands of books written after 1923 by authors who died before 1935. -- Jon Ingram