Following an agreement with Agence Europe signed on 12 July 2018, the European University Institute Library has digitised and published online an archive of about 40 years of Bulletin Quotidien Europe (French edition), from 1953 to 1999 as well as the Europe Daily Bulletin (English edition), from 1979 to 1999. Researchers and historians have now digital access to […]
The EUI Library is pleased to announce the end of the first part of the digitisation project of Agence Europe Daily Bulletin, 1979-1999, in English. The second part of the digitisation of Europe Bulletin Quotidien in French covering the years 1953-1999 will be available in 2019. In July 2018, Agence Europe and the European University […]
On July 12th, President Dehousse has signed an Agreement on behalf of the EUI Library with Agence Europe’s current director Lorenzo Riccardi to digitise the Agence Europe Bulletin Quotidien from 1953 to 1999. In January, the EUI Library reached out to Agence Europe’s director Riccardi to launch the idea for a collaborative project to digitise […]
A New York court of appeals ruled on 16 October, that the Google Books digitisation project does not violate ‘fair use’ legal provisions. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2014 judgement in the case of The Authors Guild versus Google Inc. (Alphabet), concluding that: “Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use… [ctd]
