Five organizations representing publishers, libraries and copyright holders today said the European Commission (EC) its rejection of the agreement reached by Google Books in the United States as a model to digitize books in the European Union (EU).
The platform ICOMP (Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace), created this year driven by Microsoft, said in a statement that the agreement is "unacceptable in its current form, since it could lead to a" de facto monopoly.
This declaration came on the day on which the Commission has organized an informational hearing to discuss the possible implications of the Google project, which has already reached an agreement with U.S. publishers and authors to receive 63 percent of benefits involving the digitization of their works.
According to legal counsel ICOMP David Wood, is a "real desire to achieve solutions, although the proposed settlement is not the right approach."
In his view, it is necessary to reach solutions "clear and intelligible to oppose the complex and opaque" that recognizes a balance between consumers and owners of copyright and to promote competition and services online.
"As things stand now, the proposed agreement will create a de facto monopoly for digital access to millions of works," he said.
ICOMP also said that "we should not let a single American entity issued an international model of registering rights.
Therefore, the organizations that form the platform asked the Commission to move their concerns to government and U.S. courts.
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