Press Release: Europe’s Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU’s lack of common web copyright solution

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 28 August, 2009, the European Commission, in a policy document declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects to 10 million by 2010. The Commission also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation in Europe: the potential of the public and private sector to team up and the need to reform Europe's too fragmented copyright framework.

European Commission: MEMO/09/366: Europe's Digital Library: Frequently Asked Questions http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/09/366&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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