{"id":413,"date":"2005-10-26T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T09:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2005-10-26T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T09:06:31","slug":"microsoft_joins_open_content_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/26\/microsoft_joins_open_content_a\/","title":{"rendered":"microsoft joins open content alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming &#8220;MSN Book Search&#8221; is the latest entity to join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencontentalliance.org\/\">Open Content Alliance<\/a>, the non-controversial rival to Google Print. ZDNet <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/210 0-9588_22-5913711.html\">says<\/a>: &#8220;Microsoft has committed to paying for the digitization of 150,000 books in the first year, which will be about $5 million, assuming costs of about 10 cents a page and 300 pages, on average, per book&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nApparently having learned from Google&#8217;s mistakes, OCA operates under a strict &#8220;opt-in&#8221; policy for publishers vis-a-vis copyrighted works (whereas with Google, publishers have until November 1 to opt out). Judging by the growing roster of participants, including Yahoo, the National Archives of Britain, the University of California, Columbia University, and Rice University, not to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\">Internet Archive<\/a>, it would seem that less hubris equals more results, or at least lower legal fees. Supposedly there is some communication between Google and OCA about potential cooperation.<br \/>\nAlso <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/26\/technology\/26book.html\">story<\/a> in NY Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming &#8220;MSN Book Search&#8221; is the latest entity to join the Open Content Alliance, the non-controversial rival to Google Print. ZDNet says: &#8220;Microsoft has committed to paying for the digitization of 150,000 books in the first year, which will be about $5 million, assuming costs of about 10 cents a page and 300 pages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,213,395,755,761,1060,1062,1188,1338,1368,1676,1997,2052],"tags":[2685],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-brewster_kahle","category-copyright","category-google","category-google_print","category-libraries-search-and-the-web","category-library","category-microsoft","category-oca","category-open_content_alliance","category-search","category-web","category-yahoo","tag-microsoft-google-yahoo-oca-open_content_alliance-brewster_kahle-google_print-copyright-search-web-library-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}