New EU Commission recommendation
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:57 am
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex ... 045:EN:PDFCOMMISSION RECOMMENDATION
of 27 October 2011
on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation
(2011/711/EU)
Some excerpts:
MaxDigitisation and online accessibility of public domain material
5. improve access to and use of digitised cultural material that is in the public domain by:
(a) ensuring that material in the public domain remains in the public domain after digitisation;
(b) promoting the widest possible access to digitised public domain material as well as the widest possible reuse of the material for non-commercial and commercial purposes;
(c) taking measures to limit the use of intrusive watermarks or other visual protection measures that reduce the usability of the digitised public domain material;