Sarkozy offers funds to place France’s cultural heritage online

Nicolas Sarkozy earmarked €750m to digitise France's cultural heritage and compete with Google's controversial project to put millions of books online in an announcement made on the 14 December 2009.

ESO: Background information: Authors win digital book concession from Google http://www.europeansources.info/record/authors-win-digital-book-concession-from-google/

ESO: Background information: Paris court to hear case on Google books http://www.europeansources.info/record/paris-court-to-hear-case-on-google-books/

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