The European Union has taken a few steps in the quicksand of copyright law in the digital age.
It is still regulated by 27 different laws, one per country, which greatly complicates any effort to digitize cultural backgrounds and Internet advertising. Even the brand new Europeana, the European digital library, had to do the same as one of its collaborators in France and withdraw from the network part of its contents because it was authorized to make them available only to users of that country.
For that reason, the year 2010 promises to be richer in legislative initiatives in the field of digital books. From the outset, in consultation with publishers, libraries, authors and consumers, the European Commission plans to begin by building a common register of copyright, but it may be based on licenses with different time limits depending on the country where they are registered.
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