[13132] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: netLibrary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Davidson)
Thu Mar 9 20:06:56 2000
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:51:07 -0600
From: Lloyd Davidson <Ldavids@NWU.EDU>
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The limitations of netLibrary's access and printing are also its
strengths. Without such restrictions publishers would not allow their
materials to be made available online. Of course it would be nice to be
able to simply print out a whole book and walk away with it, but that
simply isn't going to happen. It is, of course, illegal to do that with a
print book as well and the big difference with electronic text is that
there is more definitive control by the provider over how their materials
are used. NetLibrary uses a trusted systems* approach to make materials
accessible in a tightly controlled environment.
They do scan many materials in themselves and currently they are displayed
in as HTML documents but their stored data can be converted easily to XML
or other formats.
*Mark Stefik (Xerox PARC), Trusted Systems, Scientific American March,
1997, p.78-81
Mark Gimbel, Some thoughts on the implications of trusted systems for
intellectual property law, Stanford Law Review, May 1998, v50 #5, p.1671-1687
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The limitations of netLibrary's access and printing are also its
strengths. Without such restrictions publishers would not allow
their materials to be made available online. Of course it would be
nice to be able to simply print out a whole book and walk away with it,
but that simply isn't going to happen. It is, of course, illegal to
do that with a print book as well and the big difference with electronic
text is that there is more definitive control by the provider over how
their materials are used. NetLibrary uses a trusted systems*
approach to make materials accessible in a tightly controlled
environment.<br>
<br>
They do scan many materials in themselves and currently they are
displayed in as HTML documents but their stored data can be converted
easily to XML or other formats. <br>
<br>
<br>
*Mark Stefik (Xerox PARC), Trusted Systems, <i>Scientific American</i>
March, 1997, p.78-81<br>
<font size=4> </font>Mark Gimbel, <i>Some thoughts on the
implications of trusted systems for intellectual property law,</i>
Stanford Law Review, May 1998, v50 #5, p.1671-1687<br>
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