The British Library - "The world's knowledge" DRM'd and for a price
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060317044847293
"So, maybe they should inform their DRM about fair dealing? My
question is: why don't the Library's terms and conditions match the
Freedom of Information Act? Someone really needs to think about this
conceptually."
And from the comments:
"I used to work for the BL in the web archiving program.
The situation with Microsoft is actually much much worse than you
might think.
Microsoft are actively courting the library with very attractive
licensing deals
and free consultancy (despite which the DOM project still does not
work no
matter what you might read - but that is another story). As far as I
can tell
from what the head of EiS (IT by another name) says - Microsoft are
interested
in delivering BL content through some channel (not sure what though -
Encarta?
MSN Search?). The Executive team of the library seem to believe that
Microsoft
will do the right thing by them and do them lots of favours without
wanting
anything in return. They tell the story of Bill Gates eyes lighting
up when they
showed him some of the BL's treasures as though it was a good thing. "
- Rob.
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