This follows a consultation to which both COMMUNIA and La Quadrature du Net had answered. I have not yet analyzed the report, but they seem to make a lukewarm endorsement of some of our recommendations. Ex: Very lukewarm, close to cold: 4.1.5 Many cultural institutions from across Europe claim rights on digitised material that is in the public domain. In other words, they assert new rights that would have been created by the digitisation of the material. The basis for such claims is, however, not always solid, and the situation may varyfrom one Member State to the other, depending on the copyright legislation of the country concerned. This can lead to a situation where digitised objects are protected in one country and not in another, which is particularly problematic in a cross-border context. Good: 4.3.1 The Comité feels strongly that public domain material digitised with public money should be freely accessible for all. This should be part of the funding conditions for the digitisation of public domain material across Europe. Starts well, and continues badly (in my opinion): 4.4.1 Public domain material digitised with public money should be freely available for non-commercial re-use by citizens, schools, universities, non-governmental and other organisations. 4.4.2 The Comité also recommends that cultural institutions make their digitised material available as widely as possible for commercial entities to build upon. This will stimulate the use of the material for new information products and services. 4.4.3 Cultural institutions can, however, ask private companies to pay for the commercial re-use of the material, in order to recoup the digitisation costs and finance further digitisation. This could be done on the basis of a one-off payment or through revenue-sharing models. Specific partnerships between cultural institutions and smaller companies or universities could be considered, in order to stimulate the re-use of the digitised material for innovative information services. Overall, they should read better the Public Domain Manifesto and our policy recommendations : if a digitized version of a public domain work is in the public domain there is no legal basis for making conditions on its reuse (it is actually contrary to fundamental right to create any). You can create taxes, public trusts, statutory contributions, or voluntary resource pooling to raise resources for digitizing. Philippe