Wil je gratis scannen voor de bieb?

Offerteaanvraag van de Library of Congres: of leveranciers alsjeblieft gratis het een en ander willen scannen.

This contract is for the procurement of digitization services for the Library of Congress (Library) at no cost to the Government. The Contractor shall furnish the necessary personnel, material, equipment, services, and facilities (except as otherwise specified) to perform the statement of work included in section C. The Contractor’s technical proposal, entitled _____ dated _____, is made a part of this contract. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this contract and the Contractor’s technical proposal, the contract provisions take precedence.

Item	Description	Price
1	Project management (including, but not limited to: development of project plan, reporting on project status, oversight of contract work)	No cost
2	Shipping of material to the contractor and return to the Library (if off-site digitization to be performed)	No cost
3	reparation of materials for digitization	No cost
4	Digital conversion	No cost
5	Quality assurance review and necessary corrective action	No cost
6	Cataloging/metadata	No cost
7	Delivery of files to the Library	No cost
8	Production of derivatives (as applicable)	No cost
9	Production of OCR for text retrieval (as applicable)	No cost
9	Production of OCR for text retrieval (as applicable)	No cost
9	Rights clearance (as necessary)	No cost

Het voordeel voor de bibliotheek is duidelijk, maar wat zou het voordeel voor de scanbedrijven zijn?
Die mogen de reproducties "vermarkten" en krijgen daar maximaal drie jaar de tijd voor:

The contractor agrees to digitize the materials and provide the deliverables noted in the other sections of this contract. In return for access to the Library’s materials, the contractor may market and resell access to the digitized collection.
[...]
In exchange for the no-cost digitization of the Library’s materials, the Library will provide the Contractor with access to Library materials. The Library also may provide the Contractor with:
A. space in the Library’s buildings for the Contractor’s equipment and other in-kind resources necessary to support the functions identified in each digitization contract, as appropriate (see C.3 and C.6, below); and
B. a period of time during which the Library will not make the digitized material available online (i.e., allow the vendor an opportunity to recoup first copy costs through commercial use of the digitized materials); however, in no case will the delay period be greater than three (3) years.

Het is me niet duidelijk of hier al bedrijven op gereageerd hebben.
Zou het werken?
Zou het hier werken?

Het is natuurlijk vergelijkbaar met de projecten die Google doet bij verschillende bibliotheken, onder andere onze KB.

Met dank aan Edwin.

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