The Open Library has
launched to put freely licensed and public domain books online.
This looks very similar to what
Project Gutenberg has
been doing for years, but discussions of the former never mention
the latter. From a bit of reading, it seems that The Open Library
will include books that are under more restrictive terms, but I
haven't found the details yet.
It's proven harder than I thought to find 4 or 5 good links per day.
I'm going to keep trying, but I'll probably expand this to include
some musings too - and then find a new name for the series.
UK
rejects music copyright extension - it's great news, but the
article is a bit disappointing; it mostly focuses on the sob stories
of the companies who are exploiting musicians and the writer fails
to point out that the argument of musicians needing more financial
support was put forward by four millionaires.
