Open Content Alliance

Many of the Open Library partners have agreed to contribute
books and other digital cultural materials to the Open Content
Alliance, a global group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and
governmental organizations joining to provide broad, public
access to the rich panorama of world culture. The Open Content
Alliance is administered by the nonprofit Internet Archive
and governed by representatives of contributing organizations.
The ccontributing organizations support the following principles:

1. The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree
of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while
respecting the rights of content owners and contributors.

2. Contributors will determine the terms and conditions
under which their collections are distributed and how
attribution should be made.

3. The OCA need not be obligated to accept all content
that is offered to it, and may give preference to that
which can be made widely accessible.

4. The OCA will offer collection and item-level metadata
of its hosted collections in a variety of formats.

5. The OCA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools
(including finding aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will
enhance the usability of the materials in the archive.

6. Copies of the OCA collections will reside in multiple
archives internationally to ensure their long-term
preservation and accessibility to all.

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