[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today
Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 10:18:35 UTC 2015
A quick report on the other things:
*A call to positively safeguard the public domain (once PD remains PD, i.e.
digitisations) passed.
*A call to make it legally possible for authors to dedicate their work to
the PD passed.
*Explicit wording against further copyright term extension passed.
*The linking liability was mostly taken out, although some ISP liability
was voted in.
*A call to lower obstacles to the re-use of PSI passed.
*A proposal for ancillary copyright didn't pass.
And now we start thinking about what our media strategy should be before
the plenary. I will start making a list of MEPs who I think could or should
be convinced to co-sign.
Dimi
2015-06-16 12:05 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:
> Here's a page for us to work through some things and sketch out a general
> strategy and plan of action. We can also collaborate on any other materials
> we need.
>
>
> https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Stevie_Benton_(WMUK)/Sandbox/Challenging_the_Cavada_Amendment
>
>
> Such a stupid amendment!
>
> Stevie
>
> On 16 June 2015 at 11:02, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, trying to think constructively this is the advantage of GESAC being
>> to greedy.
>>
>> Cavada himself was going around telling everyone that he does not want to
>> restrict rights in other countries, just to preserve French culture. Well,
>> what happened is that they passed language copying bad practices to 15 EU
>> countries will a full FoP exception. It is an own initiative report and not
>> even the last word on it was spoken, but the general tendency to vote for
>> any AMs that restrict use was obvious.
>>
>> In order to fix this in plenary (6th of July I believe), we would need
>> three things now:
>> 1. A sensible text for an amendment to table in for the plenary vote that
>> attracts very little opposition.
>> 2. Getting many rather prominent MEPs from all groups to table this new
>> amendment.
>> 3. Some media fuzz in the countries that currently have a full exception.
>>
>> D
>>
>>
>> 2015-06-16 11:44 GMT+02:00 James Heald <j.heald at ucl.ac.uk>:
>>
>>> 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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