The project you mentioned is one of the pioneering endeavours in digitization, first with the production of e-texts then with ebooks technologies and standards: I have never heard it has actually experienced or caused any problem in any Country in the World.
I tend to consider such question of conflictual copyright laws and regulations in the context of the global campaign against intellectual property rights that is hugely supported by great corporations, european policy makers, open access fundamentalists in what seems to me a dangerous confluence of conflictual interests. There are evident reasons of cost savings and convenience in the disruptions of any "traditional" business model that make many believe the best solution is to simply get rid of many copyright limitations so that "innovation" can flourish.
I believe the opposite is true and I reached such conclusion having analysed the problem of violations to copyright and other abuses in data management in the digital markets.
The true innovation now in electronic publishing would be to use an old and consolidated "dispositif" like the copyright law, adapted in operational terms, to assure transparency, accountability, responsibility and distribution of wealth in digital economies so that every author or editor can really participate this economy everywhere, whatever distribution model and / or communitity they work for - from open access scholarly groups that want everything accessible to all for free to costly grey literature reports produced by private intelligence companies for the business and finance markets, including authors of selfpublished ebooks and traditional publishers.
I discussed this idea in my recent article cited at https://plus.google.com/115306417433645952033/posts/bjN1x8Xx7nn
Brunella Longo
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
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