emijrp, 25/10/2011 12:30:
Looks like we have a big ally in the digitisation of public domain content issue[1]:
"The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections to the fact that digitisation of Public Domain content does not create new rights in it."
Yes, it's pretty old.
Are European Wikimedia chapters working on this with Europeana?
Somehow. They worked on it with COMMUNIA (led by NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino), a friend organization which made several initiatives such as the Public Domain Manifesto (you can see several chapters on http://publicdomainmanifesto.org/node/8/signatures ) and the http://publicdomainday.org/ which was celebrated by some chapters (I remember Italy and Poland).
Nemo