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EDRI-gram
biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe
Number 5.23, 5 December 2007
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Contents
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1. New agreement between the French ISPs and record industries 2. RFID
and Informed Consent - Using and removing of RFID functionality 3.
Public letter on data security sent by MEPs to Frattini 4. UK DNA
database errors raise concerns 5. IP rules to be changed to give access
to environmental technology 6. UK Retailers blow the whistle on DRM 7.
European scientific information - too late on open access?
8. Third international conference e-Society.Mk 2007 9. Progress in the
European Digital Libraries EU Initiative 10. Recommended Reading 11.
Agenda 12. About
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1. New agreement between the French ISPs and record industries
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Under the patronage of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, an
agreement was signed on 23 November 2007 between some French ISPs and
the music and movie representatives in order to act directly against the
big illegal file-sharers. These could be warned in the first stage and
then their connection could be even cut-off..
The agreement was struck under the supervision of the Olivennes
Commission, named after its chairman Denis Olivennes who is also the
President-Director General of FNAC, the largest French retailer of
cultural and consumer electronics products. According to this convention
and as already announced by EDRI-gram one month ago, the French ISPs
will spy on their users to see if they are big file-sharers. Those who
are identified could get first a formal warning, but then they could be
even cut-off or suspended. The agreement foresees also the possibility
to have a national register of the subscribers that were suspended, but
it is doubtful that such a register will be accepted by the French Data
Protection Authority - CNIL.
As a "compensation", the movie industry has agreed to release the DVD
movies just six months after the cinema run and the music industry to
offer DRM-free songs for legal download.
But the agreement is not applicable yet, since there is no authority
created to apply the agreement. The present authority created by the
DADVSI law for the regulation of DRMs and other technical measures does
not have attributions in these sense.
The administrative sanctions could be applied also to the ISPs that
didn't sign the agreement if they don't collaborate with the new
authority.
Another problem of the new agreement is the open support to the
filtering technologies, that should be "tested" by the ISPs for maximum
2 years and then implemented if they are "realistic from a financial and
technical point of view."
Nicolas Sarkozy used the opportunity to boast himself fro having
respected his presidential campaign commitments, and to first make such
a type of agreement in France, considering it as the "future of a
civilised internet."
The deal was praised by the International Federation of the Phonographic
Industry (IFPI) that consider it as the single most important initiative
to help win the war on online piracy that we have seen so far."
But colleagues of Mr. Sarkozy from the same party, such as Marc Le Fur
and Alain Suguenot, argued against it because it "creates a truly
exceptional jurisdiction for downloaders, contravening the principle of
equality before the law". Even the chair of the commission, Denis
Olivennes, admitted that the current penalties were "totally
disproportionate" for those young people who could be engaged in illegal
file-sharing.
French consumer NGO UFC Que Choisir described the agreement as "very
tough, potentially destructive of freedom, anti-economic and against
digital history".
A response to the agreement was seen a few days later, when several
major web 2.0 actors such as AOL, Dailymotion, Google, PriceMinister and
Yahoo announced the creation of a French NGO called Association of
Community Internet Services ( L'Association des services internet
communautaires -
ASIC) that wants to present the "opportunities that the web 2.0 offers
for the French economy and culture."
Unfortunately, the French bad example was quickly picked up and used in
other countries as a positive example. As EDRI-member Open Rights Group
reports, during an event in UK last week organised by the Social Market
Foundation with the title "Intellectual Property Rights and Consumer
Rights", the minister responsible for UK-Intellectual Property Office
spoke of the need for balance in reforming Britain intellectual property
regulation but the Government's actions do not yet evidence this
commitment.
Richard Mollett from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) flagged
moves towards a voluntary agreement between the BPI and ISPs to reduce
copyright-infringing traffic, similar to French model. He expects "an
initial warning from the ISP that infringing traffic is associated with
a particular account will halt 75% of infringers. If suspicious activity
continues then account suspension is the next step, before the final
sanction of account termination." But "(...) fortunately this point was
recognised by all parties to the discussion, cutting off internet access
is very much the 'nuclear option'."
In the US, the Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Dan
Glickman confirmed this trend at a UBS AG media conference in New York,
stating that:
"Within the next few years all the major ISPs will be much more
aggressive monitoring for people who use their Internet connections" for
illegal file-sharing,
Agreement for the development and protection of cultural works and
programs in the new networks (only in French, 23.11.2007)
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/index-olivennes231107.htm
Mission assigned to Denis Olivennes in the fight against illegal
downloading and the drafting of legal offers of music, audiovisual and
cinema works (only in French, 23.11.2007)
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/index-olivennes231107.htm
France unveils anti-piracy plan (23.11.2007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7110024.stm
French record industry, ISPs in entente to boot off file-sharers
(23.11.2007)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/france_isps_record/
Olivennes Agreement: Ratiatum decripts the measures - item by item (only
in French, 26.11.2007)
http://www.ratiatum.com/news6105_Accord_Olivennes_Ratiatum_decrypte_poin
t_par_point_les_mesures.html
AOL, Dailymotion, Google, Yahoo and PriceMinister are organizing to
defend their position (only in French, 3.12.2007)
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39376103,00.htm?xtor=
EPR-102
"3 steps and you're terminated" (2.12.2007)
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/12/02/3-steps-and-youre-terminated/
ISPs to monitor Piracy (5.12.2007)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12052007/business/isps_to_monitor_piracy_208
853.htm
EDRI-gram: French ruling against video-sharing platform DailyMotion
(18.07.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.14/dailymotion-decision
EDRI-gram: French ISPs agree to spy on Internet users to stop online
piracy
(10.10.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.19/french-isp-piracy
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2. RFID and Informed Consent - Using and removing of RFID functionality
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Following the the EDRi statements on RFID Privacy Issues and RFID
Security Issues published earlier this year, EDRi recently contributed
with a third written statement to the European Commission's RFID Expert
Group focusing on RFID and Informed Consent.
In this paper, EDRi deals with the possibilities of informing
individuals about RFID use and strongly asks for a strict opt-in regime
for RFID usage.
Furthermore various mechanisms for removing, altering or disabling RFID
functionality are discussed and evaluated with respect to the protection
of personal data.
Finally, EDRi suggests a concept of responsibilities to ensure that RFID
technology is only disseminated to organisations that explicitly
consented to the use of RFIDs and that are able to take appropriate
measures to protect individuals' privacy.
EDRi's statement on RFID and Informed Consent is now publicly available.
http://www.edri.org/docs/EDRi_RFID_Informed_Consent_published.pdf
RFID Privacy Issues (10.07.2007)
http://www.edri.org/docs/EDRi_RFID_Privacy_Issues_published.pdf
RFID Security Issues (07.2007)
http://www.edri.org/docs/EDRi_RFID_Security_Issues.pdf
(Contribution by Andreas Krisch - EDRi)
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3. Public letter on data security sent by MEPs to Frattini
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Two members of the European Parliament (MEPs), rapporteurs on the
European huge biometric databases Visa Information System (VIS) and the
Schengen Information System II (SIS II), have addressed a public letter
to commissioner Frattini asking for effective data protection and data
security provisions and thus excluding the copying or storage of
sensitive data in mobile formats such as, for instance, diskettes or
CD-ROMs.
This letter comes as a reaction to the UK government data protection
security problems, after two CDs containing the personal data of 25
million citizens were lost in the post.
The two MEPs - Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Liberal Democrat European
justice spokeswoman and European Parliament rapporteur on the VIS and
Carlos Coelho, responsible for the Schengen Information System - have
reminded Commissioner Frattini and the Portuguese Presidency that during
the negotiations on the SIS II one of the major concerns of the
Parliament was exactly the problem of the so-called "technical copies"
that lead to personal data stored off-line. The compromise with the
Council was that all routine technical copies which lead to data stored
offline would have to be phased out, and that only in exceptional cases
could a copy be made offline if several rigorous criteria were met and
they were destroyed after 48 hours.
The letter, published by Statewatch, reminds that, in the current
discussions on the draft Common Consular Instructions/biometrics
collection measure, the European Commission provided the European
Parliament with a document in which "offline copies on disc are still
presented as a possible means of transfer of visa data, and that in a
context in which encryption may be challenged by the host country." This
is seen as a major concern by the 2 MEPs that asked the Commission to
learn from the UK problems:
"Not only the UK government but the EU as a whole need to ensure that
lessons are learned from this monumental blunder at HMRC. We cannot
allow lax security standards on access or copying of vast centralised
databases to imperil the personal security of millions of people", said
Sarah Ludford.
"EU data protection laws either need to be toughened up or accompanied
by a strict training and auditing regime in which data protection
supervisors must be given adequate resources and enforcement powers,
both hitherto lacking in the UK."
They also demand that the European Commission together with the Article
29 Working Party and European Data Protection Supervisor should draw up
a green paper on the risks that exist and the safeguards needed to keep
data safe.
A new draft proposal that needs the ammend the European Privacy and
Electronic Communications Directive has been published by the European
Commission. One of the important changes will be the obligation of the
electronic communication companies to notify its customers when a
privacy breach had occurred.
Letter to Franco Frattini on data security (22.11.2007)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/nov/eu-ep-letter-frattini-data-secur
ity.pdf
EU must learn database lessons from UK lost records (22.11.2007)
http://www.sarahludfordmep.org.uk/news/000951/eu_must_learn_database_les
sons_from_uk_lost_records.html
European Commission plans security breach notification law (5.12.2007)
http://www.out-law.com/page-8741
EDRI-gram: UK government loses personal data on 25 million citizens
(21.11.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.22/personal-data-lost-uk
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4. UK DNA database errors raise concerns
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The largest DNA database in the world covering details on about 4.5
million people including information on every person arrested, convicted
or not, and on 900 000 children raises questions as inaccuracies and
administrative errors have been found in its records.
Incorrect dates, spelling mistakes and duplications have been found by
Data Quality and Integrity Team of the DNA database unit. These mistakes
can lead to innocent people being accused of crimes and wrongly
arrested. Information added to incorrect profiles has also obliged the
police to erase affected records.
The DNA Database Unit had also admitted in a report in May 2007 that
between
1995 and 2005 it failed to load 26 200 records to the DNA database
because of errors, which resulted in 183 undetected crimes.
In August 2007 statistics released by the Home Office were showing
around 550 000 files with wrongly recorded or miss spelt names. This
created big concerns among civil rights groups. Shami Chakrabarti, the
director of civil rights group Liberty, considered it was already bad
that the database included innocent people which had never been charged,
many children and a large percentage of ethnic minorities. "Now it turns
out we don't know the accuracy of the data. How many Postman Pats and
Donald Ducks have entries on a system worthy of the Keystone Cops?" she
commented.
A spokesman from the National Policing Improvement Agency stated that
most of these errors have been corrected but admitted errors are still
possible.
"Between January and November 1,450 demographic discrepancies have been
discovered and rectified. Some of these are spelling errors, date taken
amendments and Force code amendments (...) The Custodian Accreditation
Service has identified and logged 111 unexpected results - possible
errors - for the financial year 2006/07 that have resulted in the
deletion of a profile or an amendment to the profile."
John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley and an
Internet entrepreneur who is investigating the reasons of the occurrence
of so many errors stated: "It is important that people recognise
Government databases are not necessarily 100 per cent accurate (...) It
is quite clear you can't trust the Government with your personal
information. They need to massively tighten up the way they deal with
these issues."
Innocents fear DNA database errors (26.11.2007)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/ndna126.
xml
Outrage at 500,000 DNA database mistakes (27.08.2007)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/27/ndna127.
xml
EDRI-gram : UK Home Office plans to fingerprint children starting 11
(14.03.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.5/uk-fingerprint-children
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5. IP rules to be changed to give access to environmental technology
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On 20 November 2007, the Members of the European Parliament (EP)
approved a report that asks for the revision of the World Trade
Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS) in order to allow the compulsory licensing of patented
environmental technologies.
The European Parliament considers developing countries should be able to
have free access to the technologies developed to target the
environmental issues such as climate change. This action comes also as a
result of the environmental activists' criticism of the EU Global Paper
stating the intention to ask for a high level of Intellecutual Property
(IP) standards on European markets. According to environmental
activists, such a policy creates problems for developing countries that
cannot afford expensive environmentally-friendly technologies.
"With a high IPR (intellectual property rights) regime, products and
processes are now patented and less accessible (...) So to really
achieve the transfer of climate-friendly technology, the biggest
incentive would be to eliminate IPRs related to these technologies."
said campaigner Meena Raman from Friends of the Earth group.
Dalindyebo Shabalala of the Center for International Environmental Law
in Geneva believes TRIPS should include clearer provisions on the patent
excepts related to public health and environmental emergencies and
waiving patents should ensure wider availability of fuel-efficient cars.
French Green MEP Alain Lipietz, the author of the EP report drafted in
preparation to the international conference on climate change taking
place between 3-14 December 2007 in Bali, Indonesia, considers that not
only IP rules should be revised but also tariffs on "green goods" should
be eliminated and means should be found to subsidise polluting
industries.
On the other hand, Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for the
environment, stated that the cost of the IP rights in such technologies
is a relatively small part of the whole cost and that there are other
issues to be taken into consideration when talking about barriers to
technology transfer such as the economical policies of the developing
countries. He considers that many companies are not willing to invest in
developing countries where their IP rights are not protected and "if
capacity-building in the host country is inadequate."
More discussions on all the types of barriers to the transfer of
environmentally-friendly technologies will be held during the present
conference in Bali.
EU Parliament Urges Change In IP Rules For Environmental Technology
(29.11.2007)
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=851
European Parliament resolution of 29 November 2007 on trade and climate
change (29.11.2007)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?Type=TA&Reference=P6-TA-20
07-0576&language=EN
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6. UK Retailers blow the whistle on DRM
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The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) asks the music industry to
get rid of DRM which they consider responsible for the continuously
decreasing of online music sales in UK.
The industry music seems to ignore the consumers' preferences who are
displeased with the copy protection systems imposing limitations on the
content use. Additionally, the occurrence of various incompatible DRM
formats has led to confusion and reserve with the consumers who tend to
prefer file-sharing, lest they should find themselves in the position of
not being able to play the music on their electronic equipment.
According to Kim Bayley, ERA director, the DRM is "working against the
consumer interest" and "puts consumers off". In a statement to Financial
Times, she has made reference to a survey already discussed in the
EDRi-gram, carried out by Entertainment Media Research and media law
firm Olswang. The study has revealed the fact that four out of five
consumers would rather have copy protection free versions of the music
they want to buy. Therefore, many of them go to file-sharing
peer-to-peer services.
Some recording companies, like EMI and Universal have already offered
DRM free catalogues and have experienced increased sales after that
which is an argument in favour of dropping DRM. During the last three
years, an average of one song per resident was sold online in UK, a sign
that it's time the music industry gave up DRM if they want to see any
improvement in the online sales.
UK retailers to record labels: DRM is killing us (21.11.2007)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071121-uk-retailers-to-record-lab
els-drm-is-killing-us.html
UK retailers join the anti-DRM crusade (23.11.2007)
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/23/uk-retailers-join-the-anti-drm-c
rusade/
UK retailers complain DRM is "stifling" music (21.11.2007)
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/21/uk.retailers.against.drm/
EDRI-gram: DRM-free music is supported by consumers (29.08.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.16/drm-free-music
EDRI-gram: DRM debate continues in Europe (28.02.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.4/drm-debate
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7. European scientific information - too late on open access?
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The recent meeting on 22-24 November 2007 of the Competitiveness
European Council meeting adopted its conclusions on scientific
information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation.
The conclusions underline the importance of scientific output resulting
from publicly funded research being available on the Internet at no cost
to the reader under economically viable circumstances, including delayed
open access. They also ask the member countries "to systematically
assess conditions that affect access to scientific information",
including:
a.The way in which researchers exercise their copyright on scientific
articles; b.The level of investments in the dissemination of scientific
information as compared to total investments in research, and c. The use
of financial mechanisms to improve access, such as refunding VAT for
digital journal subscriptions to libraries.
But the Slovenian Minister for Growth, Ziga Tur, considered the
conclusions as coming too late, explaining in his blog: "The bottom line
is that in the scientific publishing process there is a decreasing value
added by the publishers. The research is funded by the governments or
the industry, performed by the researchers, papers are written and
reviewed by them for free, only at the very end a publisher comes along
that takes over the copyright, publishes the work and sells the journal
at great expense to the community that created and edited the content
for free."
He also considers that the document aims too low, in talking only about
"delayed open access" and suggesting refunding VAT that would mean
"simply subsidizing commercial publishers".
The Slovenian Ministry suggests a much more categorical European
approach to the open access issues considering that "the explosion of
the internet based technologies in the US have been made possible by the
(1) open access to software, (2) open standards and (3) freely available
scientific articles on the subject. The cited document brings nothing
like that to Europe."
Council Conclusions on scientific information in the digital age:
access, dissemination and preservation - 2832nd Competitiveness
(Internal market, Industry and Research) Council meeting (22-23.11.2007)
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/intm/97
236.pdf
Council on Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Too Little Too
Late
(27.11.2007)
http://zturk.blogactiv.eu/archives/4
Latest EU steps in the field of scientific publishing 'too little, too
late'
(29.11.2007)
http://www.euractiv.com/en/science/latest-eu-steps-field-scientific-publ
ishing-little-late/article-168780
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8. Third international conference e-Society.Mk 2007
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The conference on the topic of "Inclusive e-Government" was organized by
the Metamorphosis Foundation last week within the frames of the project
"Western Balkans Network for Inclusive e-Government". The project aims
at strengthening the cooperation and coordination among all the relevant
stakeholders, decision-makers, government representatives, as well as
representatives of the business, academic and nongovernmental sector in
order to improve the quality and raise the level of usability and
accessibility of electronic services provided by the public
administration.
"Although the inclusion is characteristic for the countries with a more
advanced degree of development of the information society, this does not
mean that we should not discuss this topic in Macedonia and work on it,
since our goal is becoming part of the European society", said Goran
Manchev, adviser in the Cabinet of the Minister in charge of Information
Society.
In the field of inclusion, as Manchev outlined, the Government is
conducting projects, such as "Computer for Every Child", the vouchers
for the students, intervals of free internet access etc., which,
according to him, are an introduction into bridging the digital divide
in society.
The executive director of the Foundation Open Society Institute -
Macedonia, Vladimir Milchin, emphasized that the people working in the
central and local administration should increase their knowledge and
improve their skills in order to enable the users to increase their
influence in society and in shaping the public policies by using ICT :
"This means reaching the goal of having an open government and citizens
who have access, i.e. coming to a certain degree of inclusion, without
which the democratic, nor open society could not be imagined", said
Milchin in his address to the conference attendants.
"Knowledge and skills are among the prerequisites for establishing an
inclusive e-government into an information society. The digital divide
is increasing. The gap between the people using ICT technology and the
ones that are not is increasing. Therefore, we need to bridge the gap
and enable inclusion. We are aware that if Macedonia does not perform
well in this area, we will fall behind the European countries", stressed
Marjan Gushev, board member of the Metamorphosis foundation.
According to him, the "e" in the term "e-Government" stands more for
efficient rather than electronic Government, meaning that the
Government's activities should be reorganized in order to result in
providing better services for the citizens and businesses.
The second days focused on best practices in the e-Government.
Most participants claimed that the region benefits a lot from the
transfer of knowledge about good e-Gov practices from the EU, especially
from Austria, Slovenia and Estonia, three of the five top-ranked EU
countries in this area, according to Capgemini methodology.
On the other hand, reposts from different WBC pointed out not only to
the low level of e-Gov sophistication (around 2 out of 4), but also to
lack of interest in aspects of inclusion, especially lack of commitment
in applying standards for accessibility and usability in existing
e-services. Bardhyl Jashari from Metamorphosis Foundation emphasized the
importance of cooperation between different societal sectors:
governmental, business, educational and civic in overcoming these
obstacles. He also pointed out that in the case of Macedonia, around 70%
of the population does not use the internet at all, so in order to have
truly inclusive e-society, all the sectors must find mechanisms to
include this portion of population in the processes of development.
About 250 representatives of the governmental, nongovernmental,
education and business sector from 11 countries participated at the
conference that took place on 29-30 November 2007.
E-society.Mk 2007 International Conference
http://e-society.org.mk/portal/content/view/24/31/lang,en/
(contribution by EDRi-member Metamorphosis Foundation - Macedonia)
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9. Progress in the European Digital Libraries EU Initiative
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A meeting on 27 November 2007 of a high level group on digital libraries
and officials of the European Commission formalised the agreement
between European libraries, archives and museums in a common effort to
create a European digital library that would give access to a common
European cultural and scientific heritage.
The EU European Digital Libraries initiative is part of "i2010: European
Information Society 2010" initiative launched in June 2006 with the
purpose to "foster growth and jobs in the information society and media
industries", followed, in August 2006, by the adoption of the
Recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation urging "EU
Member States to set up large-scale digitisation facilities so as to
accelerate the process of getting Europe's cultural heritage on line via
the European digital library".
In this sense, Member States were encouraged to tackle questions related
to copyright and "the systematic preservation of digital content in
order to ensure long term access to the material". The idea of European
Digital Libraries was backed by the Culture Ministers of all EU Member
States and by a resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 27
September 2007.
Recently, a European digital library foundation has been created
gathering European associations that represent museums, libraries and
archives.
According to Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding,
the creation of the foundation "shows the commitment of Europe's
cultural institutions to work together and make their collections
available and searchable to the wide public through a common and
multilingual access point online".
The launching of a European digital library prototype is planned for
November 2008. The prototype will give direct access to at least 2
million digital books, records, photographs, maps, films from the
European libraries, archives and museums. It is foreseen that by 2010
the digital library will exceed the initially targeted 6 million digital
objects.
The success of the initiative depends on the financing of the
digitisation and on finding solutions to make copyrighted works
searchable through the European digital library. Therefore, the
discussions during the meeting on
27 November were focused on finding new ways to finance digitisation
through public private partnerships, in finding solutions for
mass-digitisation of out of print works and orphan works and on issues
related to access to and preservation of scientific information.
The group decided to find an agreement by June 2008 to deal with orphan
works that would including criteria to look for rightholders and an
agreement was also reached by libraries, scientists and scientific
publishers to experiment open access to scientific publications which
have been under embargo during the last period.
Launch of European digital library "on track" (28.11.2007)
http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1784
The European Digital Library: Frequently Asked Questions (25.08.2007)
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/311&form
at=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
EDRI-gram: European Parliament resolution on a European digital library
(10.10.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.19/ep-digital-library
EDRI-gram: Copyright clearing for EU digital libraries project
(25.04.2007)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.8/copyright-digital-libraries
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10. Recommended Reading
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Closing speech on Public Security, Privacy and Technology -Franco
Frattini, European Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and
Security
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/728
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11. Agenda
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5-7 December 2007, Pisa, Italy
Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=606&Item
id=337
27-30 December, Berlin, Germany
24th Chaos Communication Congress
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Main_Page
17 January 2008, London, UK
Nanotechnology for security and the crime prevention III
http://www.nano.org.uk/events/ionevents.htm#security
22 January 2008, London, UK
Gov 2.0, or Truly Transformative Government
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=169
17-18 June 2008, Seoul, Korea
The Future of the Internet Economy - OECD Ministerial Meeting
www.oecd.org/FutureInternet
23-25 July 2008, Leuven, Belgium
The 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2008)
http://petsymposium.org/2008/
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12. About
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developments in the EU accession countries and wants to share knowledge
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