Open Content Alliance

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) was a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts.

[1] Scanning for the Open Content Alliance was administered by the Internet Archive, which also provided permanent storage and access through its website.

OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differed significantly from that of Google Book Search.

Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project.

Brewster Kahle, a founder of the Open Content Alliance, actively opposed the proposed Google Book Settlement until its defeat in March 2011.