11 Amendments of Mady DELVAUX related to 2016/2072(INI)
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas authors and performers are at the origin and the very source of CCIs;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas it is increasingly rare for cultural and creative artists to be in permanent employment; whereas they are, to an increasing extent, self-employed, alternating between self-employed and employed activity or engaged in part-time or irregular activity;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the cultural and creative industries benefit considerably from public funding for culture, which also contributes significantly to cultural diversity in the European Union; urges the Commission and Member States therefore, within their respective spheres of competence, to continue a earmark an adequate share of their budgets for public funding for culture;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points out that the atypical employment of cultural and creative artists is becoming increasingly common; urges the Commission and the Member States therefore, within their respective spheres of competence, to devote greater attention to legislative provisions regarding the employment and working conditions of cultural and creative artists and in particular their social protection; calls in addition for their position to be strengthened by means of collective representation;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators, i.e. through the introduction of an unwaivable right of authors to remuneration;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Encourages the Commission to establish legal provisions which create a fairer environment governing the transfer of rights and the contractual remuneration of authors and performers; calls therefore to create a contract adjustment mechanism, which allows authors and performers to claim additional remuneration in case the revenues yielded out of the exploitation of the works are disproportionally high compared to the remuneration agreed in the initial contract; recommends also to provide for a transparency obligation for publishers and producers to detail on a regular basis timely, adequate and comprehensive information on the exploitation of works, notably as regards modes of exploitation, revenues generated and remuneration due; calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of entitling unions or associations representing creators to a kind of collective bargaining related to the definition of appropriate remuneration; asks the Commission to introduce a rights reversion mechanism which would enable creators to terminate a contract, namely in case of lack of exploitation, lack of payment of the remuneration foreseen, in established case of inappropriate remuneration as well as lack of regular reporting;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of entitling unions or associations representing creators to file legal complaints on behalf of creators;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders, right users and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights that the majority of organisations in the CCI sector are SMEs; stresses that SMEs often face major challenges with regard to rights clearance; asks the Commission, therefore, to simplify rights clearance systems in the upcoming copyright reform;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights that research on right holders and intransparent rules on copyright represent administrative burdens entailing high expenses and a lot of efforts, especially for SMEs working on cross-border basis; recommends, therefore, to establish a common pan- European database with all available information on right holders for each sector in order to facilitate rights clearance;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses that Directive 2014/26/EU has led to improvements in the rights clearance system of musical works in the online environment; asks the Commission to also improve good governance, efficiency, transparency and accountability of collective rights management organisations in other sectors;