Comments on: Guestpost: Looking beyond Google for online access to EU culture and knowledge https://communia-association.org/2016/05/19/looking-beyond-google-online-access-eu-culture-knowledge/ Website of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain Mon, 23 May 2016 11:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Federico https://communia-association.org/2016/05/19/looking-beyond-google-online-access-eu-culture-knowledge/#comment-64323 Sun, 22 May 2016 07:34:40 +0000 http://communia-association.org/?p=2174#comment-64323 Paying royalties for orphan works is an oxymoron. Either the author is known and the work isn’t orphan, or it’s unknown and the collecting society doesn’t have any possibility to deliver the royalty, let alone represent the author.

3700 doesn’t sound much better than 1700 and the difference may just be a matter of bigger interest/demand (reflected by the share of Germany in Europeana as well) or speedier delivery of records from the national to the European register.

More interesting: EOD digitised over 10 thousands books in the last 3 years, despite having very low visibility and excluding potentially-copyrighted books. https://books2ebooks.eu/content/ebooks-demand-service-remains-self-sustaining-and-seeks-further-fields-activity

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