Activities of Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG related to 2015/2147(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a Digital Single Market Act (debate) PL
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Towards a Digital Single Market Act
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that stimulating growth, innovation, creation of jobs, consumer choice and competitiveness is of the utmost importance and believes that the digital single market is key to achieving this objective by removing barriers to trade, streamlining processes for safe online businesses and supporting creators, investors and consumers; calls in this regard for competitiveness tests on all new proposals, while ensuring net neutrality;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
(1a) Points out that it is crucial to get rid of regulatory barriers and move from 28 national markets to a single one, as this could generate €415 billion per year to European economy and create hundreds of thousands new workplaces;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -2 a (new)
Paragraph -2 a (new)
-2a. Stresses that the digital single market should give the opportunity to ensure accessibility for all, especially people with disabilities, to products and services protected by copyright and related rights; is therefore deeply concerned by the lack of progress of ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty facilitating access for the visually impaired to published works; urges the Council to ensure ratification of the Treaty as soon as possible;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for targeted, evidence-based reforms to enhance cross-border access to legally available online content but stresses the importance of not mandating pan- European licences; calls instead for reforms to enable the enhanced portability of legally acquired content to be prioritised; calls for reforms to enable the enhanced portability of legally acquired content to be prioritised; stresses that for the well- functioning DSM, reforming Copyright laws is vital; in this regards, calls on the Commission to emphasis, in its upcoming Copyright reform proposal, provisions on the harmonisation of exceptions and limitations, including private copying, to tackle issues such as unjustified geo- blocking and to ensure freedom of panorama, linking and quoting;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
(2a) Recalls that copyright law should balance the interests of all actors in the distribution chain;
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that iInternet service providers should bear greater responsibility for illegal content made available on the internetstrictly specified obligations and be held responsible for take down of any illegal content detected by authorities on their webpages and should, along with other actors in the supply chain such as payment providers, play a significant role in tackling copyright abuses;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that copyright enforcement is important and therefore calls forin order for the copyright law to be respected in the digital age, a modernised approach to the enforcementimplementation of intellectual property rights online, particularly with regard to commercial- scale infringement should be adopted; EU faces a significant number of intellectual property rights infringements; according to the European Commission’s data from July 2014 - customs authorities noted as many as 87 000 detention cases in 2013, while the worth of the 36 million articles seized is estimated at more than EUR 768 million;