[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today

[Karl Sigfrid]

Here's an article about the vote. It briefly mentions the FoP NC amendment.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/european-parliament-committee-adopts-controversial-pro-user-copyright-reform-report/

Karl

Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote on 6/16/2015 5:35 AM:
> 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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