Consultation on Public Sector Information

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/online_consultation/review_Direct2008/stakeholders/index_en.htm

Excerpt from the comment of an Austrian publisher:

Significantly different are the issues concerning museums and archives where in most cases works
of art which are free of copyright are stored. (At a certain degree the problem of orphan works
remains.)
In these cases the physical access to the works of art is often restricted for re-use therefore it is not
possible to digitize the works of art which are of interest for re-use. These institutions tend to gain
new copyrights on the digitized files which definitely should be under the rules of the directive.

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/consultations/replies/stakeholders/Compass-Verlag%20GmbH.pdf

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