My startup is developing a similar service (beta), but including books IN COPYRIGHT.
Our idea is to ensure technologically, that we enable book digitizing P2P in one copy, on-demand (BookOfOne), FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY, which is fair use / fair dealing by most countries' copyright laws.
We leverage the Finnish legislature (incl. Public Lending Right's author royalty 0.32€ paid, at each access to BookOfOne = a Book's unique ONE ONLY copy with digital twin made on-demand, Peer-to-Peer): https://bit.ly/oeBookTONstatement
Would you be interested to collaborate?
If yes, I'd ask our coders to develop API from public libraries to your service,
so that any global user could access HYBRID (paper + eBook) version of any published book, anonymously, in accordance with the Finnish law.
FOR FREE (for library patrons) / for 12€ yearly membership fee / for 1 hour book scanning job's token.
*We send OTP access code to a book's digital twin/e-file at a paper letter first to a public library patron's registered home address, for 2 Factors Authentication of Right to access; incl. ZKP encryption, anonymised DID tokens etc.
My startup is developing a similar service (beta), but including books IN COPYRIGHT.
Our idea is to ensure technologically, that we enable book digitizing P2P in one copy, on-demand (BookOfOne), FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY, which is fair use / fair dealing by most countries' copyright laws.
We leverage the Finnish legislature (incl. Public Lending Right's author royalty 0.32€ paid, at each access to BookOfOne = a Book's unique ONE ONLY copy with digital twin made on-demand, Peer-to-Peer): https://bit.ly/oeBookTONstatement
Slide deck: https://bit.ly/oeBook10D100Cslides One-pager for students: https://bit.ly/oeBook10D100C One-pager for Internet Archive: https://bit.ly/oeBook4IA1pager
Website blog (with video links): http://smartpaper.fi/oe
Would you be interested to collaborate? If yes, I'd ask our coders to develop API from public libraries to your service, so that any global user could access HYBRID (paper + eBook) version of any published book, anonymously, in accordance with the Finnish law. FOR FREE (for library patrons) / for 12€ yearly membership fee / for 1 hour book scanning job's token.
*We send OTP access code to a book's digital twin/e-file at a paper letter first to a public library patron's registered home address, for 2 Factors Authentication of Right to access; incl. ZKP encryption, anonymised DID tokens etc.
Via TRANSKRIBUS READ-Coop https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/public-models/ and UpCode image recognition of a book's cover https://www.upcodeworld.com/about/news/ and white-hack scraping of book image at a local library / National archive (WorldCat etc.) https://bit.ly/oeBookARbutton