[tei-council] PR for TEI in Google Books (was Re: some brief reports to save time during our upcoming conf call)

[Lou Burnard]

I think Kevin did give us this impression during the teleconf. Certainly 
that's what the minutes (which I sent to James last night) say!

I suspect my esteemed colleague  Rahtz is trolling on the use of the 
phrase "public domain"

On 05/03/12 10:54, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> Well, the texts themselves are public domain. Do we know what license
> Google normally attach to otherwise PD texts that they release? (E.g.
> page scans.) I wonder what would be the point of releasing TEI versions
> of texts without licensing them for some kind of re-use...?
>
> Kevin, any insight on this? Any value in pushing in this direction?
>
> G
>
> On 2012-03-05 10:50, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>
>> On 5 Mar 2012, at 10:43, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>>
>>> really really bad (or contains bad OCR), the fact that TEI is a format
>>> chosen to encode many many thousands of public domain texts
>>
>> it would really be a big deal if Google released these texts
>> as public domain…. but I don't think thats what you mean :-}
>>
>> --
>> Stormageddon Rahtz
>> Head of Information and Support Group
>> Oxford University Computing Services
>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>
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