What is Europe’s answer to Google Books ?

In October 2009 the European Commission published a Communication on ‘Copyright in the Knowledge Economy’. The ‘knowledge economy’ and its relationship to copyright
have become topical as more and more information is digitised and made ‘searchable’ on the internet.

But this freedom comes at a price. Those who earn their living from writing or composing may lose out. It is in these circumstances that the Communication makes a variety of suggestions on how copyright-protected material can be legally made available to the widest audience possible.