On 21/10/2008 12:19 p.m., Peter Mott wrote:
Some thought has been put into these things by Clever People (TM) - why does the National Library believe they can ignore that body of thought?
Because if you publish it on the world wide web, they appear to have a legal mandate to take a copy of it at their pleasure.
Discussion on how to stop them downloading the data is not relevant.
You are required to provide a copy of your publication without fee, although to be fair a book publisher does not have to courier 2 copies to the Nat Library office in Redwood City, CA.
I guess that's the real point - if they're committed to using the services of an offshore provider you'd think they'd proxy it through their own international - that way we'd only be providing the content locally. Gerard