Yahoo! is to support a library project to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio.


Yahoo News has reported that Yahoo! is supporting the build up of a vast online library of copyrighted books with permission from publishers.

Yahoo, with several other partners, is supporting a project, The Open Content Alliance. The project plans to provide digital versions of books, academic papers, video and audio.

According to David Mandelbrot, Yahoo’s vice president of search content, the material digitized by the project will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors.

Other participants for Yahoo!’s project include: Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., the Internet Archive, O’Reilly Media Inc., the University of California and the University of Toronto.

Yahoo will power the The Open Content search engine. Yahoo! and its partners will make all the content available for indexing to other major search engines, including Google.

According to the report, the alliance won’t include any copyrighted material unless it receives the explicit permission of a publisher or author.

Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer, has reported that Google welcomed the project, “We welcome efforts to make information accessible to the world”.

 

 

 

 

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