Interview with Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive
By Paul Biba
Here’s a short interview with Peter, who is the Director of the Bookserver Project at the Archive. I’ve picked out one question and you can find the rest here:
Q. Does this set back the cause of having full-text book content on the web? If Google stops its scanning efforts while this is renegotiated, how much time have we lost? What’s the up side?
No, in fact, I think it reinvigorates it. The efforts of the Open Content Alliance, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, and hundreds of individual libraries around the world have indicated the strong desire to have digital books online. We are witnessing an explosion of interest in digital content, new and old, and I think the discussions around the settlement provide an opportunity for us to consider how to engender a robust, competitive, and innovative market – and not just here, but in Europe as well.
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