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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9965

29 August 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 19
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/information society
Digital Library growth is limited by EU's lack of common web copyright agreements

Brussels, 28/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a press release on Friday 28 August, the European Commission points out that 4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana, Europe's multilingual digital library (www.europeana.eu). The collection of Europeana has more than doubled since it was launched in November 2008. On Friday, the European Commission declared in a policy document that it was aiming to increase the...