Forwarded from Digital Copyright Canada
From John Lange Sent Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:54 pm To Copyright DiscussionsCc Subject [d@DCC] Manitoba Life and Times
Manitobia: Life and Times (http://www.manitobia.org/) is a new initiative of the Manitoba Library Consortium. (not much on the web site yet but read the PDF document for details) "The project will make a wealth of material on the history of Manitoba available to everyone." In short, the project aims to take a variety of old documents (mainly newspapers) digitize them using OCR, and make the available in a searchable database. Interesting in terms of discussions here because; 1) if copyright was not limited this project wouldn't be possible; and 2) under the recommendations of the Heritage committee, all content will be presumed to be copyrighted and schools will pay a levy in order to access it. -- John Lange