Associations of publishers, authors and libraries have signed at the EU
level, together with collecting societies a framework that will allow
mutual agreement scanning and making available to print books and
magazines. The parties and politicians are hoping that the "Memorandum
of Understanding need to facilitate the negotiation of licenses, the
libraries, archives and museums to digitize their works. EU Internal
Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, who had initiated the negotiations
on the agreement, ten months ago with language, from an important step
for the preservation and presentation "of our cultural heritage".
Intellectual property rights would be safeguarded while in full.
As an out of print works are, according to the Convention titles that
are purchased in their entirety in all "versions and manifestations" any
more than the usual retail channels. The fact that individual specimens
could possibly still be available in bookstores, should play no role.
Digital uses are after the consent of the owners has been obtained,
especially for purposes provided that are not directly or indirectly
commercial. Commercial applications are under separate agreements but
not completely prevented. To the amount of fees, the respective parties
set by mutual consent, for the licensing societies are responsible. When
cross-border access to digital libraries, the Convention provides
options for restricting licenses and special procedures.
The information scientist Rainer Kuhlen Constance welcomed to heise
online that the agreement also covered in the text embedded images. This
was long been controversial. Could that multimedia works, films or TV
shows before remained outside, was a pragmatic approach, since it is not
here, "sold out" by talking. Overall, the solution finding process was
not made easier by the available commercial print products than in the
highly competitive handling orphan works, in which an author can not
identify at first.
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