Europeana on-line library should be enlarged, but still respect copyright

"The EU's Europeana [OA] on-line library, museum and archive needs content from more Member States now and EU budget funding from 2013, says the Culture and Education Committee in a report unanimously approved on Monday....While welcoming the opening and development of Europeana, MEPs deeply regret the unevenness of Member State contributions. They urge governments and cultural institutions to co-operate closely in speeding up digitisation, and "not to restrict availability to the territory of their country"....They are also "convinced that public domain content in the analogue world should remain in the public domain in the digital environment, even after the format shift"....The committee wants Europeana to be able to offer in-copyright as well as out-of-print and orphan works, e.g. through extended collective licensing or other collective management practices.... "