NON PAGO DI LEGGERE. I won't pay to read!

NON PAGO DI LEGGERE. I won't pay to read! (*)
European campaign against paying for library loans
From an initiative of Cologno Monzese Library

The European Union has opened an infringement proceeding against certain European countries, including Italy, 'guilty' of not having introduced the remuneration of authors and publishers for library loans.
It is a measure which makes up part of a general attack on the right to read and to have access to culture, music and information. The so-called EUCD had already once heavily limited the potentials of copying rights and had introduced the idea of fixed-term usage (thus, from then on, whoever buys an e-book, an item of software, a CD or a DVD, can no longer be sure they will be able to use it in a few years' time or if they change CD/DVD-player, computer or laptop: the system of 'invisible ink' as it is called).

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(*) but also "I'm not satisfied with reading" or "I can't get enough of reading".
[read more on Ifla Section of Public Libraries Newsletter] august 2004 (.pdf)