Re: Retrodigitization proposal

[email protected] (Carlo Traverso) Mon, 7 Oct 2013 08:23:12 +0200 (CEST)

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>>>>> "RP" ==   <[email protected]> writes:

    RP> I wanted to bring to your attention a proposal for a Wikimedia
    RP> grant on which I am a coauthor.

    RP> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/PlanetMath_Books_Project

    RP> If successful, it would help improve technology for
    RP> retrodigitizing math books.  Given the considerable collective
    RP> knowledge of this listserver on this topic, suggestions and
    RP> comments would be welcome.

    RP> Raymond Puzio


While the proposal is technically interesting, I am rather skeptical
on the outcome of the retrodigitation, because of the existing
copyright laws. Every textbook that might be worth digitizing is under
copyright and will be in copyright maybe for a century from now. 

Authors have probably transferred the copyright to publishers, so even
authors willing to cooperate cannot. And most of the recent textbooks
have already LaTeX sources.

Much more can be hoped by the diffusion of teaching material with free
licences, through the diffusion of a culture of sharing.

Carlo Traverso

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