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From EC Commissioner Viviane Reding to French Ministry of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, interest in ARROW gets higher at European level.
The value of ARROW for the future of digital libraries and in particular Europeana is increasingly recognized by personalities from EU institutions and Member States and professionals of the book sector.
In the last month, the Project Director and Coordinator Piero Attanasio from AIE participated to several meetings, where he presented the main features of the project and its European approach in particular in comparison with initiatives like Google Book Search and the Books Rights Registry (BRR) that should be established once the agreement of Google with American Publishers and Authors is accepted.
On September 29th ARROW has been presented within the Executive Committee of FEP. The following day, a delegation of FEP leaded by FEP President Federico Motta met DG InfSo Commissioner Mrs Viviane Reding to illustrate the expected results of the project (a detailed presentation of ARROW was then requested and took place at Mrs Reding Cabinet on October 9th).
On October 1st in Luxembourg, Mr Piero Attanasio presented ARROW at the meeting of Member States Expert Group, gathering representatives of EU member states responsible for programmes of digitization and digital libraries at national level.
During Frankfurt Book Fair, Piero Attanasio presented the project at the International Supply Chain Seminar organized by EDItEUR () (13th october) and had a long meeting with the French Ministry of Culture Mr Frédéric Mitterand who showed deep interest in the evolution of the project for a correct rights management in the digital libraries environment.
