Glyn Moody has a new post on a recent The European Commission report on the Europeana digital library. The report is critical of efforts to restrict access to public domain works that have been digitized. From the post:
This is a crucially important issue. At the moment, some publishers are trying to create a new copyright in public domain materials just because they have been digitised. This is not only absurd, but threatens to nullify much of the huge potential of turning analogue knowledge into digital form.
