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Orphan worksProposal for a directiveThe Commission has adopted a Proposal for a Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works with a view to establishing common rules on the digitisation and online display of so-called orphan works. Orphan works are works like books, newspaper and magazine articles, and films that are still protected by copyright but whose authors are not known or cannot be located or contacted to obtain copyright permissions. Orphan works are part of the collections held by European libraries that might remain untouched if no common rules are developed to make their digitisation and online display legally possible. Common rules on how to deal with such works are therefore necessary in order to proceed with large-scale digitisation projects, such as the Commission’s Europeana portal.
Public consultations and hearingsPublic Hearing on Orphan Works (26.10.2009)The aim of this hearing was to gather further evidence on orphan works and how their digitisation and dissemination can best be managed in full respect of copyright rules. This hearing was a follow-up to the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (COM(2008) 466/3).
Information hearing on the “Google Book Settlement Agreement” (07.09.2009)On September 7, 2009, the European Commission organised a hearing on the effect of the Google Book US Settlement Agreement in the European Union.
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