Brussels, 11/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - A member state may, without the consent of the rightholders, authorise libraries to digitise books they hold in their collections so as to make them available at electronic reading points, the Court of Justice rules on Thursday 11 September. It stated, however, that library users may not be permitted to print out these books on paper or store them on a USB stick without payment of fair compensation being made to rightholders.
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