The "Digital Agenda" and IPR issues

Other current topics
1. IPR and the EC Framework Programme
2. The "Community Patent"; issues of concern for the scientific community
3. The "Digital Agenda" and IPR issues
4. Patenting in stem cell research

^New! ALLEA Statement on Opportunities and Risks in the Digitisation of Books and the Google Book Settlement

3.1 Policy
q  EU’s Digital Agenda 
COM(2010) 245 “Digital Agenda for Europe”
Press Release: Digital Agenda: "Comité des Sages" calls for a "New Renaissance" by bringing Europe's cultural heritage online
q  i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative 
q  Country Reports 2010

3.2. Additional material on digitization, online accessibility and digital preservation
High-level Reflection Group ‘Comité des Sages’:The New Renaissance
Annexes:
1. Terms of reference of the Comité des Sages on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online,
2. Overview of the results of the online consultation,
3. Summary of the public hearing,
4. Results of the Cap Gemini technical audit of Europeana,
5. Report of the study into the cost of digitisation by the UK Collections Trust.

Marc Tessier, Rapport sur la numerisation du patrimoine ecrit, submitted to the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, 12/01/2010
Second progress report on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and on digital preservation in the European Union - working document, November 2010

3.3. Google Book Settlement 
q  Offical site for the Google Book Settlement  
q  Google's view on the Google Book Settlement
q  Open Book Alliance - Criticisms from Pamela Samuelson on the GBS [www] & [www]
q  Symposium (12 Febr 2010): “The Google Book Settlement – The Challenge of Building a Digital Library that Benefits All” (Org.: A. Strowel)
q  James Grimmelman's: The Amended Google Books Settlement Is Still Exclusive, New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series 09/10 #25
q  Lawrence Lessig (summary)
A Guide For the Perplexed Part IV: The Rejection of the Google Books Settlement, 2011
q  ARL Policy Notes: What the Google Books Decision Said About Fair Use 
q  About google books
OITP Technology Policy Brief. The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate 
q Google Books Bibliography (Digital Scholarship website, 2011)

3.4. Relevance of orphan books
q  ARROW  
q  ARROW report: Assessment of the Orphan works issue and Costs for Rights Clearance 
q  Recent EAC meetings on orphaned books as stumbling block
q  EU, DG Internal Market, website on Orphan Works 
q  Press release Orphan Works, 24/05/2011 (with summary)
COM(2011) 289 final [2011/0136 (COD)]: Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain permitted uses of orphan works

3.5. Expert symposium on digitization

3.6. Scientific Information as part of the i2010
 Public hearing on access to and preservation of scientific information
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC): Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential Consultative Report, 6 November 2009
Access to knowledge in the age of intellectual property, zone books, 2010
q  Scientific and scholarly Information
q  Royal Society Project “Science as a Public Enterprise”
- Project details
- Terms of Reference
- Working Group
- Call for Evidence (closes 5 August 2011)

3.7. Open Access