[BOAI] Re: Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

Mon Oct 31 18:36:18 GMT 2011

The European Union has a proposal for a directive on orphan works that
would result in open access to much of the orphan litterature.

available in various languages at
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/orphan_works_en.htm

However France is trying to kill it by means of a new law proposal
presented in the French senate, that would essentially impose
Compulsory Collective Management for digital exploitation of 20th
century works, so as to make sure that nothing is made available for
free.

in French
http://www.senat.fr/leg/ppl11-054.html

I am working on a document (in French) commenting on this.  Tell me if
you are interested.

The purpose is to avoid the competition of orphan works.

in a nutshell, after so many criticisms of Google, France in
implementing internally the Google settlement without Google, and
violating even more the exclusive rights of its own authors.

The stand against the Google settlement was just a money grab.

It is not clear yet whether there will be any serious opposition
against that French bill.  Most people do not understand the issues,
which are indeed complex.

Bernard Lang

* Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com>, le 31-10-11, a écrit:
> [Forwarding from Virginie Sold.  --Peter Suber.]
> 
> 
> **
> 
>    *Digicult
>       NEWS from the European Commission, Digital Preservation and Access to
>       Cultural Resources*
> 
>    *Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation*
> 
>    The Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and
>    Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool
>    their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material
>    and make it available through Europeana.
> 
>    In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to:
> 
>    -       put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation
>    and foster public-private partnerships to share the gigantic cost of
>    digitisation (recently estimated at 100 billion EUR). The Recommendation
>    spells out key principles to ensure that such partnerships are fair and
>    balanced.
> 
>    -       make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015,
>    including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by
>    copyright, and all material digitised with public funding.
> 
>    -       get more in-copyright material online, by, for example, creating
>    the legal framework conditions enabling large-scale digitisation and
>    cross-border accessibility of out-of-commerce works.
> 
>    -       reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure
>    long-term preservation of digital material, by, for example, ensuring the
>    material deposited is not protected by technical measures that impede
>    librarians from preserving it.
> 
>    The Recommendation is an update of a first recommendation adopted in
>    2006. It takes account of Member States progress reports from 2008 and
>    2010, which show, that although progress has been made, more and better
>    action is needed as regards financial resources, quantitative targets for
>    digitisation and solid support for Europeana. It also builds on the
>    conclusions of the* 'Comité des Sages'* on bringing Europe's cultural
>    heritage online, appointed by Commissioners Kroes and Vassiliou in 2010.
> 
>    *Useful links:*
> 
>    -       The Commission' s press release on the Recommendation
> 
>    *
>    http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>    *<http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1292&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en>
> 
>    -       The text of the Recommendation in English, French and German
> 
>    *
>    http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm
>    *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm>
>    -       Europeana, Europe's digital library, archive and museum: *
>    http://www.europeana.eu/portal/* <http://www.europeana.eu/portal/>
>    -       "*Comité des Sages*" on Bringing Europe's Cultural Heritage
>    On-line:
>    *
>    http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm
>    *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/comite_des_sages/index_en.htm>
> 
>    -       Member States progress reports can be found on the digital
>    libraries website:
> 
>    *
>    http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm
>    *<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/other_groups/mseg/index_en.htm>
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