Hi all,
just to let you know that the second "digital" Commissioner had his hearing last night and to share some impressions with you. Adrus Ansip from Estonia is designated as Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.
Overall he appeared well prepared and knowledgeable on the issues he was asked. On copyright reform, the three main points he made were clear enough:
*Remove territoriality within the EU (meaning: harmonisation) *Current copyright is prohibitive for text and data mining (meaning: new exceptions/limitations) *Geo-blocking goes against the core of the digital single market. I will work to abolish it. (meaning: again harmonisation)
Other interesting points he made included:
- *Net Neutrality is important (comment: but then he spoke about search neutrality so I am confused) - *Right to be forgotten must remain an exception (meaning: unclear) - *Access to internet is a human right and we need an internet rights charta (comment: sounds great) - *Data protection is very important (comment: avoided clear wording on what this means) - *Software code produced for the EU must be open source or free software, coding must be part of school curriculum
Other than that he talked a lot about paperless administration. In relation to Oettinger (Commissioner-designate for Digital Economy and Society) , he sees himself as the "horizontal" commissioner, while his German colleague is the "vertical" one. My favourite and most re-tweeted sound-bite was: "We have to review our copyright legislation especially in regard to territoriality. This is old-fashioned".
Cheers,
Dimi
Dimi, This seems interesting. At least some guy who knows the stuff... :-) Jan ______________________________________________________________
Od: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com Komu: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA Advocacy_Advisors@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 07.10.2014 11:41 Předmět: [Advocacy Advisors] Quick notes on Andrus Ansip
Hi all,
just to let you know that the second "digital" Commissioner had his hearing last night and to share some impressions with you. Adrus Ansip from Estonia is designated as Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.
Overall he appeared well prepared and knowledgeable on the issues he was asked. On copyright reform, the three main points he made were clear enough:
*Remove territoriality within the EU (meaning: harmonisation) *Current copyright is prohibitive for text and data mining (meaning: new exceptions/limitations) *Geo-blocking goes against the core of the digital single market. I will work to abolish it. (meaning: again harmonisation)Other interesting points he made included:
*Net Neutrality is important (comment: but then he spoke about search neutrality so I am confused)*Right to be forgotten must remain an exception (meaning: unclear)*Access to internet is a human right and we need an internet rights charta (comment: sounds great)*Data protection is very important (comment: avoided clear wording on what this means)*Software code produced for the EU must be open source or free software, coding must be part of school curriculum Other than that he talked a lot about paperless administration. In relation to Oettinger (Commissioner-designate for Digital Economy and Society) , he sees himself as the "horizontal" commissioner, while his German colleague is the "vertical" one. My favourite and most re-tweeted sound-bite was: "We have to review our copyright legislation especially in regard to territoriality. This is old-fashioned". Cheers, Dimi
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Dimi wrote:
just to let you know that the second "digital" Commissioner had his hearing last night and to share some impressions with you. Adrus Ansip from Estonia is designated as Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.
Overall he appeared well prepared and knowledgeable on the issues he was asked. On copyright reform, the three main points he made were clear enough:
*Remove territoriality within the EU (meaning: harmonisation)
That can be very much bad news. The most annoying aspect of territoriality is the way exclusive rights to certain works are granted (licences for particular countries and areas). I don't think this can be changed easily, because every industry may say it may organize its sales as it wishes.
If we mean harmonization of the copyright law, this can be bad news since unless we throw out Berne convention we will be mainly harmonizing copyright exceptions, down to the common, possibly lowest, denominiator.
I am mostly concerned about wide-reaching exceptions, such as Polish rule not to copyright official materials and documents issued by public authorities; I don't see currently how that can be "harmonized" with models like UK's Crown Copyright.
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, aktron@centrum.cz wrote:
This seems interesting. At least some guy who knows the stuff... :-)
Never underestimate the power of briefing :)
//Marcin
Marcin, As far as I had an opportunity to see the discussions about the Berne convention here in Prague, it looks like the common conclusion is usually following: "umm yes, we'd like to change it, but we can't change it, because many countries would have to agree on that at once - and that is so hard to achieve". Of course that there might be a threat that the harmonized EU regulation on copyright will be based on one in the most user unfriendly country in this case. The question might be: Will the upcoming EU reform go in the direction that will try to find some balance between what the users and the publishers want or will it be - as you said - brought to the common, possibly lowest, denominiator? So far the signas we had don't show that, but the outcome of the internal Commission talks is hard to predict. Aktron ______________________________________________________________
Od: Marcin Cieslak saper@saper.info Komu: Advocacy Advisory Group for Wikimedia advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 07.10.2014 20:24 Předmět: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Quick notes on Andrus Ansip
Dimi wrote:
just to let you know that the second "digital" Commissioner had his hearing last night and to share some impressions with you. Adrus Ansip from Estonia is designated as Vice-President for the Digital Single Market.
Overall he appeared well prepared and knowledgeable on the issues he was asked. On copyright reform, the three main points he made were clear enough:
*Remove territoriality within the EU (meaning: harmonisation)
That can be very much bad news. The most annoying aspect of territoriality is the way exclusive rights to certain works are granted (licences for particular countries and areas). I don't think this can be changed easily, because every industry may say it may organize its sales as it wishes.
If we mean harmonization of the copyright law, this can be bad news since unless we throw out Berne convention we will be mainly harmonizing copyright exceptions, down to the common, possibly lowest, denominiator.
I am mostly concerned about wide-reaching exceptions, such as Polish rule not to copyright official materials and documents issued by public authorities; I don't see currently how that can be "harmonized" with models like UK's Crown Copyright.
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, aktron@centrum.cz wrote:
This seems interesting. At least some guy who knows the stuff... :-)
Never underestimate the power of briefing :)
//Marcin
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