Copyright is currently a matter under strong debate, where copyright-owners' lobbies are opposed to the rising Free Culture Movement. I am a big fan of Lawrence Lessig myself.
This EUCD, seen by many as a big victory of the copyright lobbies, is the law that in the EU addresses these themes.
Well, we learned a few days ago that the EUCD forces the Italian government to pay the publishers for the copyright fees over public libraries' loans, and i must say we were indeed horrified, as we find this to be a terrible crime against our beloved freedom of thought and speech.
If someone from outside Italy is reading this (yeah, sure) I'm afraid he could find a little difficult to understand our deep indignation as in several english-speaking countries libraries already charge a fee to their customers.
In Italy on the opposite we strongly believe that libraries are a powerful instrument devoted to education to the spreading of culture. We are afraid that this is a menace to our beloved model of free library.
If you are interested, and i hope you are, you can look for more informations here.
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