TAKUAN, so true, so true ...

We are so frelled ... the frog is dead.

My point is that the irresponsible attitude of "Let's just put it up on the Internet Archives" damages the Archives in the long run.

Like I said, I'm NOT defending ProQuest (with whom I deal on an indirect basis daily).

Or is thinking about what you are doing now a crime?

This is not black and white ... he is residing in Taiwan, writing for a British publication about both US and British publications.

His comments about ProQuest are, at best, disingenuous. BTW, ProQuest is claiming copyright on the digitized versions of the materials, of which they have done the heavy lifting to get online.

Putting materials into the Internet Archives of which you cannot claim "ownership" or "creation" may poison the well. Go reread the terms of use for the Internet Archives and tell me the wisdom of his approach ...

I'm not defending ProQuest; just saying that this may not be the brightest way to go about "freeing information."