Activities of Julia REDA related to 2015/2103(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Civil Law Rules on Robotics
Amendments (4)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas developments in the field of medical applications, such as robotic prostheses and implants, make persons carrying them vitally reliant on the availability of maintenance, repairs, and enhancements;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that an EU-level approach is needed to avoid fragmentation in the internal market, and at the same time underlines the importance of the mutual recognition principle in the cross-border use of robots and robotic systems; recalls that testing, certification and market approval is only necessary in a single Member State; stresses that this should be supplemented by effective market surveillance which includes access to software where necessary, and that market surveillance authorities need to be equipped with strict legal remedies and powers to recall and sanction infractions;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that in the continental European understanding of authors' rights, intellectual creation is tied to the personality of the author; therefore, artificial agents such as computers or robots cannot be perceived to be authors, and information produced by them cannot be eligible for copyright protection;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Points out that for the field of vital medical applications such as robotic prostheses, continuous, sustainable access to maintenance, enhancement, and in particular software updates that fix malfunctions and vulnerabilities needs to be ensured; to this end, a person carrying such a device is to be considered the full owner of the device and all its components, including software source code; considers this necessary to retain the means to support these vital devices, for example if support is no longer carried out by a supplier; therefore, additionally suggests the creation of independent trusted entities that retain the technology necessary to provide persons carrying these devices with such care, including the means to assemble and install software updates on the device; supports creating an obligation for manufacturers to provide these independent trusted entities with comprehensive design instructions as well as source code to this end, similar to the legal deposit of publications in a national library;