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

[Lou Burnard]

I was talking about this with another TEI Board member at lunch today, 
and she said "Of course what we really want is for it to be possible to 
export/import TEI format in Google Docs."

That does seems like an interesting prospect worth raising with Mr 
Google, if we have the opportunity. Though I suppose that the part 
concerned with  Google Docs and the part concerned with Google Books 
rarely meet.



On 05/03/12 14:29, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Creative work is not the same as "sweat of the brow" in US copyright
> case law.  It takes a lot of effort to compile a telephone book, but
> there's no creativity in its arrangement.  So it is not copyrightable.
>
> Google has developed algorithms for inserting markup, but no TEI
> document created using this algorithm requires creativity.  So the
> algorithm is copyrightable but not the documents it produces.
>
> In any case, no need to trust me.  Let's just be ready with the PR
> announcement in case Google does not attach a copyright notice to the
> TEI document.  If they do attach a copyright notice, I'll be ready to
> argue with the Google engineer that it's a spurious claim.
>
> On 3/5/12 9:18 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> I am not convinced. That PDF is just a set of images, isn't it? The TEI-ed XML version _would_ attract copyright, as there
>> is substantial intellectual effort being put into the work. If you can show me a google book with the actual OCRed text being
>> given to me with a free license, then I may believe…..
>> --
>> Stormageddon Rahtz
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>>
>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
>>