{"id":55539,"date":"2009-11-30T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/EU-Still-Plans-to-Start-Local-Digitization-Process-to-Challenge-Google-Books-128430.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:25:00","slug":"eu-still-plans-to-start-local-digitization-process-to-challenge-google-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/55539","title":{"rendered":"EU Still Plans to Start Local Digitization Process to Challenge Google Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the controversy surrounding Google Books has been quieting down lately, but it’s not all smooth sailing now that a revised settlement has been agreed upon. While the copyright issues regarding orphan books have been addressed, European countries are still very much against the idea that the task of preserving the world’s books in digital form should fall into the hands of any one private company. A plan to start a pan-European digitization process has been around for a while now, and several projects have been started or planned, although none have reached their intended goals so far. The EU is not giving up though and officials have agreed to create a committee to put things into motion.<\/p>\n

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand told a local newspaper of the plans in an interview and also argued the need for a state-backed project. He said that the first step was getting everyone on board and getting everyone’s opinion on the matter. “The committee will be asked to bring together national views and draw up a joint position,” Mitterrand told Journal du Dimanche. <\/p>\n

The main argument for the project is that the effort is much too important to be left to the whims of a private company. Of course, the fact that this certain company is American only makes it worse, though … (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the controversy surrounding Google Books has been quieting down lately, but it’s not all smooth sailing now that a revised settlement has been agreed upon. While the copyright issues regarding orphan books have been addressed, European countries are still very much against the idea that the task of preserving the world’s books in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}