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Project Gutenberg is missing a lot of content that is public domain, and the oldest entries are often pretty poor in quality (and some of the oldest entries are
by caslon 4y ago
Project Gutenberg is missing a lot of content that is public domain, and the oldest entries are often pretty poor in quality (and some of the oldest entries aren't lucky enough to get redone like Carroll's work has been).
- zozbot234 4y agoWhich just goes to prove parent's point. As much as it might seem otherwise, IPR restrictions are not the main bottleneck to widespread availability of content (at least book-like content); actually making the content available is far more important! (Also, keep in mind that content is now entering the public domain every year, and projects like PG are nowhere close to keeping up with that flow of newly-unrestricted stuff. So this dynamic is becoming more extreme over time, not less.)
- caslon 4y agoI really don't think it proves any point aside from Project Gutenberg being a bad example, as it doesn't really contain the sum of human knowledge in the sense that a pirate library does.