I'm at a Nordic conference on libraries and copyright in Oslo Yesterday we discussed a paper about “The digital library” by Harald von Hielmcrone, He’s main point was, that the long-term consequence of the present legislation in combination with the technological developments and commercial decisions made by the libraries is that the library as a basic public infrastructure is in danger of disappearing, and will be substituted by private content providers. If the present development is allowed to continue, publishers will provide for new, in-copyright content, and Google will take care of the rest. Leaving the basic library infrastructure to commercial interests will endanger the long term, preservation of and access to our literary heritage. In a commercial setting, there will be no guarantee that published works will continue to be available to the public. On the contrary, there are good reasons to expect that they will disappear when the commercial potentials of the works are ex
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