EC Green Paper
A round-table discussion of the EC Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
At the recent Adaptive Content Processing Conference (ACP08) in Amsterdam, we invited several key stakeholders to join a round table discussion focused on the EC Green Paper: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (pdf) (MS Word). The discussion covered many different issues and concerns and provided an excellent overview of the ongoing debates.
The EC Green Paper focuses on the role of copyright in fostering dissemination of knowledge for research, science and education. It is intended as the starting point for a structured debate on the long-term future of copyright policy in these fields. Copyright policy has increasingly emerged as a transversal issue, involving not only the internal market and cultural policies but also information society, competition and consumer interests. The Green Paper is an attempt to organise this debate and point to future challenges in fields that have not been a focal point up to now, e.g. scientific and scholarly publishing, and the role of libraries, researchers and the persons with a disability.
The participants in the Round Table discussion were:
Anne Bergman-Tahon - Federation of European Publishers, Belgium
Cristina Mussinelli - Associazione Italiana Editori, Italy
Hiroshi Kawamura - President of the DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher - Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium
Koen Krikhaar - IFLA Libraries for the Blind section, The Netherlands
Andy Heath - Open University, United Kingdom
Roel van Houten - Viziris, The Netherlands
Dr. Thomas Kahlisch - Director, German Central Library for the Blind Leipzig (DZB), Secretary IFLA Libraries for the Blind section, Germany
Dorine in 't Veld, VIEWplus Technologies, The Netherlands