8 Amendments of Andrew LEWER related to 2016/0278(COD)
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled of 27 June 2013;
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Union Directives in the area of copyright and related rights provide legal certainty and a high level of protection for rightholders. This harmonised and harmonise essential rights of authors, performers, producers and broadcasters. This Union legal framework contributes to the proper functioning of the internal market and stimulates innovation, creation, investment and the production of new content, including in the digital environment. It also aims to promote access to knowledge and culture by protecting works and other subject-matter and by permitting exceptions or limitations that are in the public interest. A fair balance of rights and interests between rightholders and users should be safeguarded.
Amendment 13 #
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 availamprove accessibility tof those works in accessible formats and to improve their circulation in the internal market, as well as to increase availability where necessary and where the conditions set forth in this Directive are met.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The exception should allow authorised entities to make and disseminate online and offline within the Union accessible format copies of works or other subject-matter covered by this Directive in line with relevant existing Union law.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) It should be possible for accessible format copies made in one Member State to be available in all Member States, in order to ensure their greater availability across the internal market for persons with disabilities. This wcould reduce the demand for redundant work in producing accessible format copies of the same work or other subject matter across the Union, thus generating savings and efficiency gains. This Directive should therefore ensure that accessible format copies made in one Member State may be circulated and accessed in all Member States, if the criteria set forth in the Directive are met. An authorised entity should thus be able to disseminate those copies, offline or online, to beneficiary persons and authorised entities in any Member State. Moreover, authorised entities and beneficiary persons should be allowed to obtain or have access to those copies from any authorised entity in any Member State.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In view of the specific nature of the exception, its targeted scope and the need for legal certainty for its beneficiaries, Member States should not be allowed to impose additional requirements for the application of the exception, such as compensation schemes orwhere these are consistent with the objectives of the Directive and justified in light of the three-step test. Otherwise, additional requirements would run the prior verification of the commercialsk of going against the purpose of the exceptions provided for by this Directive, and avgailabilitynst the purpose of facilitating the cross- border exchange of accessible format copies within the internal market.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – introductory part
(2) ‘'beneficiary person’' means, regardless of any other disabilities, any of the following:
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1