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 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Ananda T Byrappa e-mail: ananda.byrappa@ge.com Whitney Knowledge Centre, GE Global Research Work: +91-80-25032618 DCom:8*9012618 John F. Welch Technology Center Fax: +91-80-28412114 Address: EPIP, Phase-II, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Rd., Bangalore 560066, INDIA -----Original Message----- From: sathya [mailto:sathya@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 -------------------------------------------------- N V Sathyanarayana Chairman & Managing Director Informatics (India) Ltd Bangalore 560003, India Phone : 91-80-23365940 www.informindia.co.in -------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Byrappa, Ananda (Research) [mailto:ananda.byrappa@ge.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:53 AM To: radha_inf@yahoo.co.in Cc: lis-forum@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 ________________________________________ Ananda T. Byrappa Whitney Knowledge Centre GE India Technology Centre Pvt.Ltd., 122, EPIP, Phase 2, Hoodi Village, Whitefield Road, Bangalore - 560066, INDIA Phone : +91-80-2503-2618, DialCom: 8*901 2618 Fax : +91-80-2841-2114, Email : Ananda.Byrappa@ge.com