[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

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 at gmail.com>:

> 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=20150616-0900-COMMITTEE-JURI>
> 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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