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France
Example of convention signed with editors to facilitate the loan and usage of digitised documents in libraries
http://www.addnb.org/fr/docs/convent2.htm

Examples of concrete solutions to the loan of licensed materials and compilation of information about rights and loans: 
http://www.addnb.org/fr/docs/pretlogi.htm
http://www.abf.asso.fr/dossiers/droitdepret/
http://www.addnb.org/fr/docs/borzeix.htm

Netherlands 

FOBID
NBLC has also dealt with availability of newspaper clippings on CD-ROM, production of CD-ROM about authors, cultural education etc. Together with academic libraries under the umbrella of Fobid, a Legal Committee, analyses and works on library friendly contracts. http://www.surfbureau.nl/fobid/home.html

Kranetenbank
One result so far is the availability in the public libraries of a database with sources from six daily newspapers. Provincial library centres may also negotiate on IT products to be available for the local libraries connected to their network. 
www.krantenbank.nl

NBLC
Example of a committee to negotiate and purchase licenses and new media content at discount rates.
www.nblc.nl

Spain
CEDRO Intellectual Property Rights Agency
Libraries have to be licensed to make copies of documents.
http://www.cedro.org/castellano/licencias.htm

Intellectual Property Rights and Libraries
Work Group of FESABID (Spanish Federation of Archival, Library, Documentation and Museology Societies)
http://www.bib.uab.es/project/cas/piadr0.htm

Sweden 
Swedish archives
A paper outlining the impact of the EU Copyright Directive on Swedish archives is available on www.dik.se

United Kingdom
NESLI (National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative)
A programme to deliver a national electronic journal service to the UK higher education and research community. NESLI encourages the widespread acceptance by publishers of a standard Model Site Licence.
http://www.nesli.ac.uk/

PA/JISC guidelines
The result of an agreement between the UK higher education sector and publishers on what is acceptable to copy electronically without having to obtain clearance – fair dealing uses. 
NESLI. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/clearance/study.doc

SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
Project to create “a networked multimedia resource base for teaching and celebration of human history and material culture in Scotland”. Users have to be licensed and agree to strict conditions of use.
http://www.scran.ac.uk

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