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@maggs.name:

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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