EU begins consultation over digital copyright

The European Commission has begun a public consultation on the future of Europeana, the EU's multilingual digital archive, and the digitisation of books that will run until 15th November. The Commission has also declared as its target to bring the number of digitised "objects", held by Europeana. to 10 million by 2010. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, said: "The digitisation of books is a Herculean task but also opens up cultural content to millions of citizens in Europe and beyond. This is why I welcome first efforts made by Member States and their cultural institutions to fill the shelves of Europe's digital library." But she described as "alarming" the finding that "only 5% of all digitised books in the EU are available on Europeana" and that "almost half of Europeana's digitised works have come from one country alone"--France.

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