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...myopic campaign of strict copyright law enforcement: the publishing industry. What publishers oppose, however, is far more significant than the freedom to shuffle between Bruce Hornsby and U2 on an iPod. When a group of publishers announced last week that they disapproved of a Harvard University Libraries (HUL) project to digitize a portion of Harvard’s books, they declared their hostility toward the enrichment and advancement of the academic world...
While Google may upload some of Harvard’s copyrighted works, they will not yet be displayed, HUL Director of Publications and Communications Peter Kosewski told The Crimson at the time...
...works copyrighted before 1923 are generally in the public domain, while in many other countries, the copyright period is determined by the number of years after the author’s death, according to HUL Associate Director for Planning and Systems Dale Flecker...
...Flecker wrote that HUL has worked out a system to provide “on-line access to the public domain works [while access to] works still under copyright will depend on publisher/copyright holder permission...
Notwithstanding the criticism, HUL Director Sidney Verba ’53 says the project has generally been well-received and will continue as planned. The copyright laws in question are aimed at corporations, not libraries, he added...