Ryan writes: \”If it wasn\’t for the purportedly archaic copyright law, argues law professor Mark Lemley, representing the non-profit Internet Archive, \”digital archives could inexpensively make the other 9,853 books published in 1930 available to the reading public starting in 2005,\” he wrote. If the law \”still stands, we must continue to wait, perhaps eternally, while works disappear and opportunities vanish.\”
Brief filed by Archive and friends.
NYT Story, Login may be needed before long; wasn\’t at 11.40 this morning, don\’t know how long it takes \’fore this is no longer breaking news.
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Gary Price pointed to a number of see also\’s over on his Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk.
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