Seven European free culture associations issued a statement [1] [fr] protesting against a public-private partnership between the French National Library BNF and Proquest database [2] [fr], whose aim is to digitize a large amount of Public Domain works and privatize them with an exclusivity period of commercialization of ten years. Activist Philippe Aigrain explained [3] [fr] “the genealogy of this disaster” on his blog.
France: NGOs Condemn Privatisation of Public Domain
· Written by Filip Stojanovski
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