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ericblair
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14 December 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged

National Library of Norway is digitalizing its books!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/norway-digitizing-a ll-books-national-
library_n_4427164.html

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Norway is going digital.

In a plan to scan all of its publications to the cloud, the National Library of Norway
is digitalizing its books, and it and plans to make them all freely available to users
with a Norwegian IP address. The library plans to have the project completed in about
15 to 20 years.

The initiative was first launched in 2006. Under the program, the institution will
digitize its entire collection. It requires, by law, that all published content and
media be submitted to the National Library, according to reports.

By 2012, the Norway Library had digitized 350,000 newspaper editions, 235,000 books and
240,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts, among other forms of media including radio
broadcasts and TV programs, the Scandinavian Library Quarterly reports.

Pretty neat project!

Edited by ericblair on 14 December 2013 at 4:42pm
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14 December 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged

Good for them.
Muito obrigado pela parte que me toca.
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14 December 2013 at 6:59pm | IP Logged

I just wonder how accessible it will be, Google started digitising books as well but had to put some
restrictiohs on it due to copyrights...
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15 December 2013 at 12:33am | IP Logged

ennime wrote:

I just wonder how accessible it will be, Google started digitising books
as well but had to put some
restrictiohs on it due to copyrights...

I believe all things out of copyright will be accessible to anyone on the world, and
anything in copyright will be open to anyone with a Norwegian IP address.
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15 December 2013 at 9:29am | IP Logged

The thing about a Norwegian IP address is a fairly severe restriction.
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15 December 2013 at 8:34pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

The thing about a Norwegian IP address is a fairly severe restriction.

Yes it is, but setting up a VPN connection to a server in Norway is a possible way around it.
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16 December 2013 at 1:06am | IP Logged

ericblair wrote:

ennime wrote:

I just wonder how accessible it will be, Google
started digitising books
as well but had to put some
restrictiohs on it due to copyrights...

I believe all things out of copyright will be accessible to anyone on the world, and
anything in copyright will be open to anyone with a Norwegian IP address.

Does it really mean that?
It would mean that in effect, copyright of such objects would cease to exist within
Norway.

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16 December 2013 at 4:04am | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

ericblair wrote:

ennime wrote:

I just wonder how accessible it
will be, Google
started digitising books
as well but had to put some
restrictiohs on it due to copyrights...

I believe all things out of copyright will be accessible to anyone on the world, and
anything in copyright will be open to anyone with a Norwegian IP address.

Does it really mean that?
It would mean that in effect, copyright of such objects would cease to exist within
Norway.

The link says the following:

Quote:

Norway is also taking the project a step further and offering both copyrighted
and non-copyrighted material to Norwegians. (Non-copyrighted material will be freely
available to all Internet users.)

I guess it is open to interpretation. Keep in mind, it only refers to things their
National Library has....not everything. Right? I don't know.

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