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06/10/2005
Yahoo!-backed group plan to put books online
Internet group Yahoo! are head of a consortium which announced plans earlier this week to start scanning books and build a free online library of books and multimedia files.
The Yahoo!-fronted Open Content Alliance also includes Hewlett Packard, the UK's National Archives, O'Reilly Media, the University of California and the University of Toronto.
Like Google, they plan to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio in a searchable and freely available format - but they intend to will address publishers' copyright concerns.
Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors.
The group hopes to avoid the controversy stirred up by Google by asking copyright holders to opt into the scheme.
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