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Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online

Posted by timothy on from the how-many-libraries-of-congress-is-that-anyhow dept.

Mark_Uplanguage writes "The idea to scan in all materials available at the U.S. Library of Congress was presented at the Web 2.0 conference this week (as just one of many ideas presented). The proposed cost of $260 million would create a huge benefit to society (well, at least to those who can read English)."

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  1. Re:Er by Jerf · · Score: 1, Troll

    Putting it all online would let people get copies of it for *gasp* FREE.

    Who said anything about "free"?

    Although this would potentially take dialog about the public domain out of obscurity and into the LoC mainstream, and the LoC does have some influence in the copyright debate. Certainly once the data exists, anywhere, it is going to be harder to make the argument that we should just throw it away, no matter what the reason.