<div dir="ltr">And here's Julia Reda's account of what was adopted and what wasn't:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/reda-report-adopted-a-turning-point-in-the-copyright-debate/">https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/reda-report-adopted-a-turning-point-in-the-copyright-debate/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tanel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-16 18:16 GMT+03:00 Karl Sigfrid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@wikimedia.be" target="_blank">karl@wikimedia.be</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Here's an article about the vote. It briefly mentions the FoP NC
amendment.<br>
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<a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/european-parliament-committee-adopts-controversial-pro-user-copyright-reform-report/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/european-parliament-committee-adopts-controversial-pro-user-copyright-reform-report/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote on
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<div>Hi,<br>
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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. <br>
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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.
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<div>What's in it for us?<br>
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<ul>
<li><b>Freedom of Panorama</b> 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.</li>
<li>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</li>
<li><b>Compromise Amendment 5</b> will call for "lowering the
barriers to Public Sector Information".</li>
<li><b>Compromise Amendment 6</b> will say that it "urges the
Commission to<i><b> </b></i>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."</li>
<li><b>Compromise Amendment 6 </b>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".</li>
<li><b>Compromise Amendment 7</b> will explicitly call on the
Commission to refrain from further copyright term
extentions.</li>
<li>While very watered down, <b>Compromise Amendments 10 and
11</b> call for at least some harmonisation by mentioning
"minimum standards across the exceptions and limitations".<br>
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<li><b>Compromise Amendments 13 and 14</b> 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. </li>
<li><b>Compromise Amendment 18</b> on Text and Data Mining is
rather weak, but at least it doesn't do any harm. <br>
</li>
<li>The paragraph on linking liability is completely off,
which is to be welcomed, since it would have gone in the
wrong direction.</li>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>Voting should begin around 10:30. <br>
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Live stream: <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20150616-0900-COMMITTEE-JURI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video…</a><br>
Voting list: <a href="https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/voting_list.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/…/03/voting_list.pdf</a></p>
<p>Dimi<br>
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