Well, the overrepresentation of French MEPs in JURI surely wasn't helpful. (4 French MEPs vs. 2 German, for instance). They were also very vocal from the start, while no one else seemed to really care enough.
 
Some soft wording that could make us claim that we wouldn't impose anything on anyone would be helpful. The Wikström AM is seen as too much off the centre. The ECR compromise proposal might be better. Just saying that the UK Conservatives proposed it might be helpful.Longer compromises are good, because they let you make everyone feel like they contributed. Maybe going for the CAM proposed by the UK Conservatives would work. On the other hand a short text makes people less afraid you're trying to sneak something past them.

Dimi


2015-06-16 13:07 GMT+02:00 James Heald <j.heald@ucl.ac.uk>:
Dimi,

What's your assessment of where the balance in the plenary might be on this?

Is there any chance the plenary (with people from ITRE etc, and not such an over-representation of the French) might go for something more like Wikstrom's amendment ?

Or something close to the compromise AM that was supposedly being worked on ?

  -- J.



On 16/06/2015 12:02, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:

@Marcin, in this case, anything that flies with the media and helps us
change the text would work. The report that was adopted already calls for
minimum standards for exceptions. We're not getting more, but we might get
less.

I agree. Let's not only forget that so called media are the party
to this discussion and not necessarily a friendly one. But I agree
we need to wor with them.

I think we should work on a very neutral, non-scary text as an amendment
for the plenary. Perhaps something along the lines of:

16. Invites the EU legislator to recognise that the use of photographs,
video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in
public places is permitted.

Otherwise, working on the original Cavada text, we could go for:

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 *permitted* *subject to prior authorisation from
the authors or any proxy acting for them*.

How do you understand "should always be permitted"? - that kind of

~Marcin

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