The European Commission said that it could revise the copyright law to facilitate companies like Google Inc. to digitize books already published and distributed their copies over the Internet.
Those changes could include easier ways to compensate authors and publishers, possibly through a legal license with the company could get the rights to create digital copies and pay royalties into a common fund would be divided later among the different holders of copyright of the work.
Currently the copyright is handled differently in each of the 27 European Union countries, making it difficult to obtain permission to publish digitized material, especially when you can not find the owner of rights.
The European Commission, the executive authority of the union, said he would begin work on the case next year in order to promote large-scale digitization and suggested ways to compensate owners.
Any suggested changes to European law must be approved by EU governments and lawmakers.
The commissioner of the Media of the European Union, Viviane Reding welcomed the resolution.
"Europe can offer more and earn more with the digitization of books," said the commissioner, but said it still must be reviewed various legal matters.
The measure was prompted in part by a hearing committee in September with European authors, publishers, libraries and technology companies that exposed the ways in which they affect an agreement that Google is negotiating in the U.S..
In fact Google has begun to digitize millions of books following the law of copyright in the United States.
The company has proceeded according to a tentative agreement with U.S. authors and publishers that cover all books, unless there is an objection by the holders of rights.
A judge must approve the agreement after the parties involved will make modifications to meet the comments of the Justice Department. The U.S. antitrust authorities are not considering the case.
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