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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9965
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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...