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With an estimated value of US$151 billion, book publishing gradually evolved into a truly global business early in the 21st century. As yet, however, e-books are nevertheless significant only in a relatively small number of markets. These are led by the United States (13% of the book market) and the United Kingdom (11.5%), with Germany (5%) developing more recently. The e-book market in the EU has taken off only in recent years, and in 2014 it still represented only 1.6% of the total book market ...

This briefing note provides a contribution to the "Workshop on Copyright - Tackling orphan works and improving access to works for visually impaired persons", which took place at the Legal Affairs Committee's meeting on 10 November 2009. Works are called orphan when rightsholders cannot be identified or located. Substantial groundwork has been done in the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries. Practical tools to facilitate rights clearance are implemented in projects where rightsholders and ...

This briefing note provides a contribution to the "Workshop on Copyright - Tackling orphan works and improving access to works for visually impaired persons", which took place at the Legal Affairs Committee's meeting on 10 November 2009. Orphan works are a serious issue for digital libraries. The digitisation progress is slow and only brings out-of-copyright material to the Web. If there are exceptions to this rule, they are either disputed or they are highly time-consuming and therefore extremely ...

This briefing note provides a contribution to the "Workshop on Copyright - Tackling orphan works and improving access to works for visually impaired persons", which took place at the Legal Affairs Committee's meeting on 10 November 2009. There are different practices in Europe: no legislation on orphan works, extended collective licensing that includes orphan works, and registers that are used for the search of authors. Legislation is needed. The extended collective licensing seems to be the best ...