[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today

[Stevie Benton]

I think the first is probably preferable as it sounds quite soft. I
especially like "invites" as it is completely non-confrontational.

Not sure which one will attract less opposition though...

Stevie

On 16 June 2015 at 11:39, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Marcin, in this case, anything that flies with the media and helps us
> change the text would work. The report that was adopted already calls for
> minimum standards for exceptions. We're not getting more, but we might get
> less.
>
> I think we should work on a very neutral, non-scary text as an amendment
> for the plenary. Perhaps something along the lines of:
>
> 16. Invites the EU legislator to recognise that the use of photographs,
> video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in
> public places is permitted.
>
> Otherwise, working on the original Cavada text, we could go for:
>
> 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 *permitted* *subject to prior authorisation
> from the authors or any proxy acting for them*.
>
> Which one is likely to attract less opposition?
>
> Dimi
>
>
>
> 2015-06-16 12:31 GMT+02:00 Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info>:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, James Heald wrote:
>>
>> > I see this as a "Euro-sausage" issue -- a case of the EU threatening to
>> > interfere with UK laws, and make lots of good things illegal.
>>
>> Well, but this goes against the general idea of broad, harmonized
>> copyright exceptions which we support I think?
>>
>> ~Marcin
>>
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