Dear Michael,
Yes, the actual text will be published in June or July 2016, most likely
along with a "enforcement" part of the legislative package.
Currently, the services have plenty of the texts drafted - sometimes in
more than one version, but there seems to be no political decision about
the exact direction. What is new for me is the fact that the communication
was presented by Commissioners Oettinger, Jourová and VP Ansip. Jourová is
new to the "DSM team" and might break the deadlock between the the other
two.
The most important things right now are a) keeping FoP on the agenda (so
far so good) and b) talking to the political cabinets of the Commissioners.
Jourová's being the obvious starting point, but the Commission being a
college, all of the cabinets might be worth a try.
The way things stand, it is even possible that a last-minute political
decision by the President of the Commission puts points in or out of the
text.
Best,
Dimi
2015-12-15 9:43 GMT+01:00 Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name>me>:
Hi Dimi
I see from this communication, published last week, that the Commission
is assessing options and will consider legislative proposals on other EU
exceptions by spring 2016, in order to:
- allow public interest research organisations to carry out text and
data mining of content they have lawful access to, with full legal
certainty, for scientific research purposes;
- provide clarity on the scope of the EU exception for ‘illustration
for teaching’, and its application to digital uses and to online learning;
- provide a clear space for preservation by cultural heritage
institutions, reflecting the use of digital technologies for preservation
and the needs of born-digital and digitised works;
- support remote consultation, in closed electronic networks, of works
held in research and academic libraries and other relevant institutions,
for research and private study;
- clarify the current EU exception permitting the use of works that
were made to be permanently located in the public space (the ‘panorama
exception’), to take into account new dissemination channels.
Do you know what will happen in practice? Will there be draft legislation
in the spring, and will we get any chance to influence the wording?
Best regards
Michael
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