13 Amendments of Cecilia WIKSTRÖM related to 2014/2256(INI)
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. Whereas the current highly fragmented system of national private copy levies constitutes a deeply unfair, flawed and outdated system for compensating right holders for what amounts to an ordinary and perfectly harmless use by consumers of legally acquired content and whereas there are no objective and fair methods to redistribute the so called compensation from this use as there is no way to establish which legally acquired works citizens are copying in the privacy of their own homes;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. Whereas the fragmented system of private copy levies causes disproportional bureaucratic burdens and major problems for the proper functioning of the European internal market for all goods covered by the unjust and outdated levy system which is detrimental to growth and economic development in Europe; whereas the European digital single market will therefore not become a reality until private copy levies have been phased out;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers the introduction of a single European Copyright Title on the basis of Article 118 TFEU that would apply directly and uniformly across the EU, in accordance with the Commission’s objective of better regulation, as a legpotential means to remedy the lack of harmonisation resulting from Directive 2001/29/EC, which merits to be properly assessed by the commission in its review of Directive 2001/29/EC;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that a large part of the fragmentation of the digital single market for cultural content needs to be tackled with further legislative measures, also besides the review of the Directive 2001/29/EC, targeted at the lack of harmonised approach notably with regards to the licensing of cultural content and in this context welcomes the progress which was achieved through the adoption of the Collective Rights Management Directive as an important first step;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to harmonise the term of protection of copyright to a duration that does not exceed the current international standards set out in the Berne Conventionexplore the possibility to significantly shorten the duration of the harmonised terms of protections of copyright within the framework of a modern trade policy agenda;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to makepropose a list of mandatory all the exceptions and limitations referred to inin its review of Directive 2001/29/EC, toas this would allow equal access to cultural diversity across borders within the internal market and to improve legal certainty;
Amendment 406 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the ability to freely link from one resource to another is one of the fundamental building blocks of the free and open internet; calls on the EU legislator to make itfurther clearify that reference to works by means of a hyperlink is not subject to exclusive rights, as it does not consist in a communication to a new public12 ; __________________ 12 Order of the Court of Justice of 21 October 2014 in Case C-348/13, BestWater International GmbH v Michael Mebes and Stefan Potsch (request for a preliminary ruling from Germany’s Bundesgerichtshof).
Amendment 419 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the EU legislator to ensureCommission to propose in the review of Directive 2001/29/EC that the use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in public places ishall be permitted;
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 473 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 505 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU legislator to protect consumers by precludeing Member States from introducing statutory licences for the compensation of rightholders for the harm caused by acts made permissible by an exception;
Amendment 512 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for the adoption of harmonised criteria for defining the harm caused to rightholders in respect of reproductions made by a natural person for private use, and for harmonised transparency measures as regards the private copying levies put in place in some Member States13 ; __________________ 13As stated in António Vitorino’s recommendations of 31 January 2013 resulting from the latest mediation process conducted by the Commission in respect of private copying and reprography levies.Underlines that citizens in all Member States should have a legal right to make private copies for their own use of legally acquired content without having to pay extra compensation to right holders through cumbersome and illogical levies on technical devices; thus urges the commission to propose a fully harmonised private copy exception which would not cause harm to right holders and which would thus not need to be compensated through a levy system;
Amendment 532 #
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 hindered by technological measures and that member states should have sufficient enforcement measures in place to deter any such actions;