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European Commission reveals book digitisation plans

19 October 2009

Emma Barraclough, London

The European Commission has set out its plan for digitising books

In a communication published today, commissioners Charlie McCreevy and Viviane Reding set out how they want Europe to preserve and disseminate cultural work in digital form.

The communication comes 15 months after the Commission adopted a green paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy and a month after it held hearings in Brussels on the Google Books Settlement Agreement being negotiated in the US.

Today the Commission said that the hearings had highlighted the “anomalous...



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