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As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat slee
As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat slee
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2025-04-06
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As a business model, the world of publishing has always been a somewhat sleepy enclave, but now all that seems poised to change. Several companies have moved aggressively into a new business endeavor whose genesis comes from the question: Who owns the great works of literature?
Text-on-demand is not a completely new idea, of course. In the 1990s, the Gutenberg project sought volunteers to type literary classics that had expired copyrights into word processing files so that scholars would have searchable databases for their research. Most of the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Proust, and Moliere were to be found free online by as early as 1995.
However, now large-scale companies have moved into the market, with scanners and business plans, and are looking for bargain basement content. These companies are striking deals with libraries, and some publishers, to be able to provide their content, for a price, to individual buyers over the Internet.
At stake are the rights to an estimated store of 30 million books, most of which are now out of print. Many of these books are now also in the public domain, giving any company the right to sell them online. Still, a good portion of the books a general audience want to buy is still under copyright. The urgent question:Who owns those copyrights? In the case of all too many books put out more than 20 years ago by now-defunct publishing companies, the answer is unclear—a situation the new text-on-demand companies are eager to exploit. An association of publishers has sued, claiming massive copyright infringement. The case is several years away from trial. [br] It can be inferred from the passage that the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere______.
选项
A、are some of the most popular works of literature
B、are no longer copyrighted
C、are among the works for which the association of publishers is suing text-on-demand companies
D、do not currently exist as searchable databases
答案
B
解析
根据短文可以推断,莎士比亚、塞万提斯和莫里哀的作品不再享有版权。根据第二段最后一句,早在1995年,莎士比亚、塞万提斯、普鲁斯特和莫里哀的大部分作品可在网上免费获得。D也有一定的迷惑性,但D推理过度。
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