[Advocacy Advisors] InfoSoc Own-Initiative Report Vote Today

[Tanel Pern]

And here's Julia Reda's account of what was adopted and what wasn't:

https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/reda-report-adopted-a-turning-point-in-the-copyright-debate/

Tanel

2015-06-16 18:16 GMT+03:00 Karl Sigfrid <karl at wikimedia.be>:

>  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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