One advantage is it gives us something very hard
and concrete to kick
against -- a real threat we can e.g. try to get on the front page of Metro
Sometimes it can be an advantage if people can see the bogeyman in full
stark reality.
-- James.
On 16/06/2015 10:39, Stevie Benton wrote:
This is terrible.
I will start a page on the UK wiki where we can throw something
together
On 16 Jun 2015 10:37, "James Heald" <j.heald(a)ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
I think we should go the full Daily Mail.
>
> Talk about books being pulped, blacked out photos of the buildings at
> Canary Wharf, etc, etc
>
>
> Did anyone spot how Honeyball voted on the Wikstrom amendment (good)
> and
> the Cavada amendment (bad) ?
>
>
> -- James.
>
>
> On 16/06/2015 10:12, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:
>
> So, the French visual artists collecting society got their preferred
>> amendment through (Cavada). Unfortunately this is the worst possible
>> for
>> us. It says:
>>
>> 16.
>> Considers that the commercial use of photographs, video footage or
>> other
>> images of works which are permanently located in physical public
>> places
>> should always be subject to prior authorisation from the authors or
>> any
>> proxy acting for them
>>
>> We need to consider if we'll try to further amend it in plenary in
>> several
>> weeks or we just concentrate on the Commission.
>>
>> Dimi
>>
>>
>> 2015-06-16 5:35 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com>gt;:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>>
>>> in a few hours the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) will vote on the
>>> own-initiative report (not a legal instrument, but rather a
>>> recommendation)
>>> by Julia Reda.
>>>
>>> The full name of the document is Report on the Implementation of
>>> Directive
>>> 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and
>>> related
>>> rights in the information society. It is about the implementation of
>>> the
>>> current copyright framework and how it could be updated. It is also a
>>> very
>>> first step in the process that will continue with the Commission
>>> proposing
>>> a reform text before the end of the year.
>>>
>>> What's in it for us?
>>>
>>> - *Freedom of Panorama* is looking good as it stands, but there
>>> is
>>> high chance of "non-commercial" being added to it. There was
no
>>> compromise
>>> on this, so we tried everything we could in the past week.
>>> - In order for Freedom of Panorama to be preserved or even
>>> extended,
>>> following amendments need to be rejected:
>>> 414/415/417/420/422/423/424/426
>>> - *Compromise Amendment 5* will call for "lowering the barriers
>>> to
>>> Public Sector Information".
>>> - *Compromise Amendment 6* will say that it "urges the
>>> Commission to
>>> clarify
>>> that once a work is in the public domain, any digitisation of
>>> the
>>> work
>>> which does not constitute a new, transformative work, stays in
>>> the
>>> public
>>> domain."
>>> - *Compromise Amendment 6 *will also call the Commission to
>>> examine
>>> "whether rightholders may be given the right to dedicate their
>>> works
>>> to the
>>> public domain, in whole or in part".
>>> - *Compromise Amendment 7* will explicitly call on the
>>> Commission to
>>> refrain from further copyright term extentions.
>>> - While very watered down, *Compromise Amendments 10 and 11*
>>> call for
>>> at least some harmonisation by mentioning "minimum standards
>>> across
>>> the
>>> exceptions and limitations".
>>> - *Compromise Amendments 13 and 14* try to propose introduce an
>>> "open
>>> norm" to EU copyright, but are so watered down, that the initial
>>> intention
>>> is almost gone. Still OK to have.
>>> - *Compromise Amendment 18* on Text and Data Mining is rather
>>> weak,
>>> but at least it doesn't do any harm.
>>> - The paragraph on linking liability is completely off, which
>>> is to
>>> be
>>> welcomed, since it would have gone in the wrong direction.
>>>
>>> All in all, I am very happy and excited about Compromises 6 and 7.
>>> Compromise 5 is a step in the right direction, although not as clear
>>> as
>>> we
>>> wanted it. Freedom of Panorama remains a major worry. In a worst
>>> case
>>> scenario we might just want to kill it in a later stage of the
>>> legislative
>>> process to guard the status quo if the the "non-commercial"
fixation
>>> remains this sticky.
>>>
>>> Voting should begin around 10:30.
>>>
>>> Live stream:
>>>
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video…
>>> <
>>>
>>>
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20150616-09…
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Voting list:
https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/
>>> …/03/voting_list.pdf
>>> <https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/voting_list.pdf>
>>>
>>> Dimi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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