Groklaw: The British Library - “The world’s knowledge” DRM’d and for a price

May 9th, 2006

As the EU Commission seeks to build a European Digital Library, PJ, of the award winning Groklaw website, sets her sights on the world leading British Library and in particular on its increasingly controversial attitude to DRM, fair-dealing and copyright in the digital age.

“If [the EU] duplicate what they have done at the British Library, I think it’s fair to say that it is the death of public libraries as we have known them, and the world’s knowledge will be available only DRM’d and for a price.”

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