French Prime Minister Endorses Google Bibliotheque Nationale Plan

Posted by admin on Sep 15, 2009

French Prime Minister François Fillon has endorsed the idea that Google might digitise some books and documents of the French National Library. Closing a government seminar on the digital economy last week, he said that “Google is not a problem, but a challenge”. Fillon dismissed the recent uproar over reports that the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) was in negotiations with Google. “It would be shocking if it (the BNF) were not doing so,” he declared.

During a roundtable chaired by Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand, Google France chief Mats Carduner said he had offered to transmit to the BNF and the European digital library Europeana all the out-of-copyright French language books digitised by Google in the United States.

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