[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today

Tue Jun 16 09:44:26 UTC 2015

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 at 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 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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