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		<title>French culture minister Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Mitterrand speaks out against Amazon&#8217;s &#8216;predatory pricing&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 03:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big publishers aren’t the only ones concerned about Amazon’s “predatory” e-book pricing practices. It’s also worrying the French. The Bookseller reports that outgoing French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has written to European Competition commissioner Joaquin Almnunia of his concern that ongoing antitrust investigations could lead to distributors such as Amazon taking unfair advantage. Allowing publishers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARROW project attempts to make orphan works easier to trace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks back, BookBrunch featured an article looking at a new way of tackling the problem of finding the owners of orphan works—books that are still under copyright but whose current owners are unknown. It is estimated that up to 40% of library holdings may be orphaned. Google’s solution for Google Books was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission report: Digitizing orphan books in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Publishing Perspectives had an interesting story about the problem of digitizing orphan works in Europe. It’s a little hard to count them, given that different countries use different standards for orphanhood, but a European Commission report (PDF) guesses that there are about three million orphan books—books that are still in copyright but whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU to ensure that digital devices don&#8217;t lock consumers into proprietary tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is an initiative that we all should get behind. According to Neelie Kroes, EU commissioner for the Digital Agenda: &#8220;User data is moving more and more into the &#8216;cloud&#8217; and people are getting their music, videos and applications digitally (for example through iTunes) instead of buying them in physical media,&#8221; Kroes said. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major blow to &#8220;secret&#8221; ACTA treaty by European MEPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve previously reported on the ACTA treaty which is being negotiated in secret among the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, and a number of other governments. This treaty, which often looks a lot more like a copyright treaty than a counterfeit-goods treaty, could have profound implications for many ordinary Internet users (including e-book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick notes:EZ Reader Pro review; NPR story on ereaders; Amazon&#8217;s bestselling books; European Commission &#8220;reflection&#8221; document on copyright</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/quick-notesez-reader-pro-review-npr-story-on-ereaders-amazons-bestselling-books-european-commission-reflection-document-on-copyright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John&#8217;s Blog has a review of this Astak unit and finds it disappointing and &#8220;&#8230; a poor substitute for a paper weight.&#8221; _____ NPRs Morning Edition has a story on ereaders which you can listen to here. _____ Amazon is publishing its best-selling items for 2009 and you can find their bestselling books listed here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU may revise copyright law to make book scanning easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presently copyright is controlled by the separate laws of each of the European Union&#8217;s 27 nations. According to an article in ECommerce Times the European Commission said it would look into revising copyright law to make it easier to scan books. The Commission will start work on this next year and look into, also, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission to do own copyright investigation; establish own system</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/european-commission-to-do-own-copyright-investigation-establish-own-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/european-commission-to-do-own-copyright-investigation-establish-own-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has adopted a Communication on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy and according to Viviane Reding, the Commissioner in charge of information society and the media will &#8220;&#8230; seize this opportunity to take the lead and ensure that books digitization takes place on the basis of European copyright law &#8230; If we act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viviane Reding, EU&#8217;s information chief, calls for single digital market</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/viviane-reding-eus-information-chief-calls-for-single-digital-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/viviane-reding-eus-information-chief-calls-for-single-digital-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find a report of Reding&#8217;s speech, given on October 1 in Brussels, at the link above. Reding&#8217;s vision is important for the future flow of information and will, in my view, eventually result in Europe far surpassing the US in information flow and freedom. In her speech today at Brussels, she laid down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Books news roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/google-books-news-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline to opt out of the Google Books settlement falls on this coming Friday. Expect to see a large number of articles about Google Books in the news (such as the piece Paul Biba posted earlier today) as the week draws toward a close. Here are a few I’ve seen over the past couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europeana looks for 10 million books in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Europa press release.  For an earlier article on the copyright disagreements in the European Commission going on in see our article linked here. 4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana, Europe&#8217;s multilingual digital library ( www.europeana.eu ). The collection of Europeana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission split over Google Books</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/european-commission-split-over-google-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So reports EurActiv in an excellent article summarizing the current state of the Google controversy. Evidently the Information Society Commissioner, viviane Reading, supports Google&#8217;s efforts, but the Internal Market Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy differs and he has called for a hearing which will be held on September 7. Here are a few excerpts from an article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European copyright extension vote on the 23rd</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Open Rights Group: With the European Parliament set to vote on 23 March on extending the term of copyright for sound recordings, key European experts opposing the extension have released a new letter to MEPs warning of the dangers. Highlighting that the costs to the public are likely to exceed €1 billion the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 million Euros allocated to European digital libraries</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/library/25-million-euros-allocated-to-european-digital-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess today is Europe day for postings. The following is from DigitalKoans: Here&#8217;s an excerpt from &#8220;European Commission CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme: Digital Libraries Information Day, Luxembourg, 17th February 2009.&#8221; A budget of 25 million euros is allocated to digital libraries in the 2009 call. The main goals of this call are contributing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Commission postpones piracy proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following from Euractive: The European Commission is set to put proposals to tackle online piracy on ice until the end of its current mandate, following heavy pressure from telecoms companies and consumer organisations alike, EurActiv has learned&#8230;. The most ancipated measure was a follow-up to a Communicationexternal on online content, presented at the beginning [...]]]></description>
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