Right. Which is why *someone* copied all of the Google digitized books
to the Internet Archive -- someone not associated with the library
partners. So generally if you cannot download from HT you can find the
same scan via openlibrary.org. Unfortunately that doesn't help with
using the tool that ELM has alerted us to.
kc
On 6/1/15 2:19 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote:
I think we are in agreement (especially about the utility of all things
HathiTrust). My one point is that any restrictions on digitized public
domain works, as I understand it, are not related to copyright.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Terry Reese <[email protected]> wrote:
However, the digitizing agency cannot dictate any copyright
restrictions on the digitized copies once released to the public
The digital objects have not, and as far as I understand, cannot be made
available to the public if digitized as part of the google books
digitization project. Most institutions got very limited use, and
generally these were tied to their specific, immediate, communities.
Though, with that said each institution has slightly different terms. For
what it's worth, the research center does not make the digital copies
available for download -- it provides tools for working with data in
aggregate (worksets) and provides a proof of concept environment
demonstrating the feasibility of creating a secured data repository with I
believe the long-term goal of providing data mining for the entire
hathitrust resources (both within and outside of the public domain). But
even as it stands now, the tool has become a fantastic teaching tool when
talking to instructors and graduate students looking for large data sets to
work with, that also includes some pretty interesting research algori!
thms for working with the data.
--tr
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Jimmy Ghaphery
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser
Thanks Eric for posting the webinar in the other thread.
I am pretty sure that digitizing something in the public domain does not
change its copyright status, at least in the U.S. The digitizing agency
certainly has the right to sell, restrict access, watermark, or even keep
the scans locked up on a thumb drive in a closet. They are not obligated to
share or to provide the digital files in a re-usable format. However, the
digitizing agency cannot dictate any copyright restrictions on the
digitized copies once released to the public.
#iamnotalawyer and welcome correction
best,
Jimmy
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:58 AM, davesgonechina <[email protected]>
wrote:
They just informed me I need a .edu address. Having trouble
understanding the use of the term "public domain" here.
Gung fhpx, naq fbhaqf ernyyl fbeg bs fghcvq!! --RYZ
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