7 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2016/0278(COD)
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled continue to face many barriers in accessing books and other print material which are protected by copyright and related rights. Measures need to be taken to increase the availability of those works in accessible formats and to improve their circulation in the internal market to ensure that persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled have access to knowledge and can be fully integrated, in all areas of social and professional life.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Directive is designed for the benefit persons who are blind, have a visual impairment which cannot be improved so as to give those persons visual function substantially equivalent to that of a person who has no such impairment, or have a perceptual or reading disability, including dyslexia, preventing them from reading printed works to substantially the same degree as persons without such disability, or are unable to hold or manipulate a book or to focus or move the eyes to the extent that would be normally acceptable for reading due to a physical disability. The objective of the measures introduced by this Directive is to improve the availability of books, journals, newspapers, magazines and other writings, sheet music and other print material, including in audio form, whether digital or analogue, in formats that make those works and other subject-matter accessible to those persons to substantially the same degree as to persons without an impairment or disability, to ensure that they are fully included and that knowledge is fully accessible. Accessible formats include Braille, large print, adapted e-books, audio books and radio broadcasts.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Directive is designed for the benefit persons who are blind, have a visual impairment which cannot be improved so as to give those persons visual function substantially equivalent to that of a person who has no such impairment, or have a perceptual or reading disability, including dyslexia, preventing them from reading printed works to substantially the same degree as persons without such disability, or are unable to hold or manipulate a book or to focus or move the eyes to the extent that would be normally acceptable for reading due to a physical disability. The objective of the measures introduced by this Directive is to improve the availability of books, journals, newspapers, magazines and other writings, sheet music and other print material, including in audio form, whether digital or analogue, in formats that make those works and other subject-matter accessible to those persons to substantially the same degree as to persons without an impairment or disability. Accessible formats include Braille, speech synthesisers, large print, adapted e-books, audio books and radio broadcasts.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) With the adoption of this Directive, the Union aims to ensure that beneficiary persons have access to books and other print material in accessible formats. Accordingly, this Directive is an essential first step in improving access to works for people with disabilitiesensuring that persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled have access to knowledge and can be fully integrated, in all areas of social and professional life.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that only beneficiary persons and authorised entities can have access to accessible works. The Member States shall also put in place appropriate measures to prevent the illegal reproduction, dissemination, communication and making available of accessible format copies, in order not to prejudice the property rights of rightholders.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Any amendment must be justified and strike a fair balance between the property rights of rightholders and the fundamental right of access to culture of beneficiary persons who have a disability. Any amendment shall be conditional on the prior consultation of national societies of authors and composers and of the beneficiary persons as defined in Article 2(2), in order to ensure that a fair balance is struck between the parties concerned.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
No sooner than [fivthree years after the date of transposition], the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of this Directive and present the main findings to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee, accompanied, where appropriate, by proposals for the amendment of this Directive.