Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2014/2256(INI)
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Amendments (8)
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the necessity for authors and performers to be provided with legal protection for their creative and artistic work; recognises the role of producers and publishers in bringing works to the market, and the need for appropriate remuneration for all categories of rightholders; calls for improvements to the contractual position of authors and performers in relation to other rightholders and intermediaries;, as contractual exchanges are often marked by an imbalance of power between the parties leading to corporations retaining most of the resulting profit, for instance through right reversion that cannot be waived by contract and that give creators the possibility to retain the right to reclaim copyright interests they have transferred after a set number of years, providing them a second opportunity to negotiate a better return.
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls that Member States have a positive obligation to provide for a robust and flexible system of copyright exceptions and limitations in order to honour their human rights obligations
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Emphasizes that industry geoblocking practices should not prevent cultural minorities living in EU Member States from accessing existing contents or services in their language that are either free or paid for;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that the "three-step test" of international copyright law should serve to encourage the establishment of a solid and flexible system of exceptions and limitations;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Urges the European legislator to ensure that all citizens can enjoy at national level, judicial or administrative procedures enabling to request the implementation and expansion of exceptions and limitations to assure their constitutional and human rights;
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses the need to ensure the swift ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, without making the ratification conditional to the revision of the EU legal framework on copyright, and then ensure that the copyright laws of Member States contain adequate exceptions to facilitate the availability of works in formats accessible to persons with visual impairments and other disabilities, such as deafness.
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Requests the Commission to explore the various legal bases at EU level that are necessary to allow, as EU rule or in Member States, the legalization of non- commercial private sharing between individuals of digital works, which is a right of EU citizens that should not be jeopardized by copyright rules;
Amendment 536 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that the effective exercise of exceptions or limitations, and access to content that is not subject to copyright or related rights protection, should not be waived by contract or hindered by technological measures of protection or online contracts in the digital environment;