http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:33:39 +0000 Hilary [Visitor] c75809@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ Regarding public domain books - Google has publicly announced that they have already identified 1.5 million books out of the 7M+ books they have scanned as being in the public domain: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/02/15-million-books-in-your-pocket.html James Grimmelman has pointed out that many US government office works that were scanned have still not been identified as public domain works on Google Books (http://laboratorium.net/archive/2009/01/05/why_is_google_restricting_access_to_government_boo). Marybeth Peters also noted that few of the books published before 1964 had their copyright renewed (which was required to retain copyright protection), so the majority will be in the public domain. Looking at books on Google Books published between 1923 and 1964 (ttp://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Science%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=1923&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=1964&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES) shows that the majority are "snippet view" or "no preview", suggesting they have not yet been identified as public domain books. I expect the number of public domain books included in Google Books to rise significantly in the future. http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2009/03/15/the-orphan-monopoly#c75809 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:23:17 +0000 Randy Picker [Visitor] c75774@http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/ The slides for my talk are at the website link listed if you are interested for more detail. http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2009/03/15/the-orphan-monopoly#c75774