[LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws

[Byrappa, Ananda (Research)]

Thanks, Sathya. 

LOCKSS(Lot of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)is an interesting project. But it apprars to me that, the scope of the project is limited to crawling, preserving and providing access to digital content. I did not see anything about converting "print" to "digital". Please let me know if my understanding is not correct.

But, it sounds like a promising initiative for archiving subscribed digital content provided the publishers allow us to do the following:

	- To provide permission to collect, preserve and provide access to their content
	- Give permission to LOCKSS crawler to collect the content through a publisher manifest

Thanks for letting us know about an interesting digital project, LOCKSS (http://lockss.stanford.edu)

Regards,
Anand

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-----Original Message-----
From: sathya [mailto:sathya at informindia.co.in]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:31 PM
To: Byrappa, Ananda (Research)
Subject: RE: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws


Anand 
U wld find it interesting to study LOCKSS project of Stanford University.
There are certain conditions under which digitization can be permissible.
LCKSSS is one.


Sathya
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-----Original Message-----
From: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) [mailto:ananda.byrappa at ge.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:53 AM
To: radha_inf at yahoo.co.in
Cc: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] scanning books and copyright laws

Anuradha,

Copyright law does not allow you to scan the books even for academic and
research purpose. You need to take written permission from the
publisher/copyright holder to digitize any book. Its unlikely that you get a
permission from them. As an alternative,  you may want to consider online
books like knovel, netlibrary, e-brary, 24/7 etc for subscription. Again
they may not fill your requirements as these e-book models are still
evolving (slowly!)

There are security methods to control accessing digital documents. For
example, British Library(BL), London is recently started using 'secured
document delivery' method for their electronic document delivery service.
Which allows end users to access the document only one time. You may wish to
visit BL website for more details

Regards,
Anand

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