Activities of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2014/2256(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights (A8-0209/2015 - Julia Reda) PT
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society
Amendments (16)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the appointment of two Commissioners who will work on further developing the EU digital agenda and copyright issues in the course of the new Commission mandate; welcomnotes the Commission Work Programme for 2015 insofar as it promises to deliver a Digital Single Market Package, which includes the objective of modernisupdating copyright rules;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that copyright and related rights play an important role, as they protect and stimulate both the development and marketing of new products and services and the creation and exploitation of their creative content, thereby contributing to improved competitiveness, employment and innovation across several industry sectors in the EUStresses that protecting copyright represents a fundamental recognition of the performance of creative work which promotes the creation of jobs in all the Member States and provides a guarantee of fair remuneration for creative work;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws the Commission’s attention to the fact that the term of protection of copyright has been harmonised at European level by a directive that was revised in 2011 (Directive 2011/77/EU of 27 September 2011 amending Directive 2006/116/EC), under which protection lasts for 70 years after the author’s death, in line with average life expectancy in the European Union; highlights the economic importance of the cultural and creative industries, which account for more than 7 million jobs in the European Union and generate a total of 4.2% of EU GDP;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the need to ensure appropriate remuneration and to protect the rights of all categories of right holders in a better way; recalls that while the cultural and creative industries (CCI) employ more than seven million people and contribute 4.5% of EU GDP annually, and that even though the services, technologies and options permitting the general public to access creative works grow every day, the earnings of right holders in the CCI sector keep decreasing, in contrast to the growing profits made by intermediaries;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. HighlightTakes the factview that Member States’ provisions on copyright and related rights vary considerably, and that the exclusivity which copyright grants its owner is, in principle, limited to the territcreating ‘European authors’ rights’ through a single European system of copyright would impose a forimal boundaries of the Member Stity thate where the right has been granted, which leads to market fragmentation across the EUould stand in the way of fair remuneration for creative work;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that there is a need to further improve cross-border access and the portability of services which are essential for consumerbeneficiaries to be able to get the services they want, where and when they want themaccess knowledge, without discrimination;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Member States and the Commission to promote a flexible and balanced framework for exceptions and limitations that does not cause any harm to copyright holders and that conforms with consumer expectationsto the right of access to knowledge; emphasises the important role that exceptions and limitations agreed on for public-interest reasons, for the purpose of education and teaching, play in providing access to knowledge as well as in encouraging cultural and societal participation; urges the Commission and the Member States to consider e-books as part of public lending schemes, provided that all necessary agreements with the relevant right holders have been reached beforehand;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recommends studying the rules governing file-sharing for non- commercial purposes, which should provide mechanisms to ensure that intermediaries pay fair compensation for creative work;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the structured stakeholder dialogue ‘Licenses for Europe’, launched by the Commission in 2013; believes that relevant stakeholder engagement and sharing of best practices is essential if a more homogenousfair implementation of copyright laws across the EU is to be reached;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the importance of promoting greater interoperability for software, as lack of interoperability hampers innovation and reduces competition in the EU; believes that lack of interoperability may lead to market dominance of one particular product, which in turn stifles competition and limits consumer choice in the EUthe use of free software, as the use of private software poses obstacles in terms of interoperability, which in turn hampers access to knowledge and information.
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that exceptions and limitations in the digital environment should be enjoyed without any unequal treatment as compared with those granted in the analogue worldshould be used for the purposes for which they were designed and not to create new business models;
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU legislator to ensure that the use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in public places is permitted for non-commercial purposes;
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for a broad exception for research and education purposes, which should cover not only educational establishments but any kind of educational or research activityinstitute, including non-formal education;
Amendment 551 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recommends making legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures conditional upon the publication of the source code or the interface specification, in order to secure the integrity of devices on which technological protections are employed and to ease interoperthat the rules governing file-sharing for non-commercial purposes be studied with a view to estability; considers, in particular, that where the circumvention of technological measures is allowed, technological means to achieve such authorised circumvention must be availableshing arrangements requiring intermediaries to pay fair compensation for creative work;