ac26b80246f86ff811c58d09_jk7.jpg Jon Krause

A Universal Library

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Today, we can make not just books, but paintings, films, and music, available to anyone, anywhere, anytime – but we don't, owing to a copyright system skewed toward corporate interests.

MELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five major research libraries. Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.

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