12 Amendments of François-Xavier BELLAMY related to 2020/2018(INL)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers it essential that parties with a legitimate interest have access to reliable information on the operators of information society services, including for intellectual property enforcement and the protection of minors; regrets that the information requirements in Article 5 of Directive 2000/31/EC are insufficient for these purposes; calls for intermediaries such as domain name registrars, web hosting providers, and online advertising services to be required to verify the identity of their commercial users;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on platform operators to take their responsibility as content distributors and gatekeepers, as they play a crucial role in accessing news, audiovisual content and creative works; stresses that in order to safeguard and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, the promotion of European works, as well as media pluralism, the use of algorithms by such platforms should be transparent so that it is clear how access to content is granted, denied, ranked and/or undermined; calls on platform operators to not only to immediately delete illegal content after positive identification, but also to continuously transmit it to the law enforcement authorities for the purpose of further prosecution, including the metadata necessary for this purpose,;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a strengthened legal framework to ensure that service providers take effective measures and act expeditiously to remove illegal content from their services and that such content stays down after being removed;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to clarify the notion of expeditious reaction, which is already included in the E-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Considers that for the infringement of live content, the reaction of service providers should be immediate when the notification from rights holders is received;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Draws the Commission’s attention to recent national court cases which oblige service providers to take down the infringing content within 30 minutes;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Stresses that voluntary measures taken by service providers to fight against illegal or harmful content should not lead to a limitation of their liability;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 57 #
4a. Underlines that illegal content online, including piracy and counterfeiting, represents a massive and continuous threat for European citizens and for the European cultural and creative industries, requiring that the legal framework remains adapted to the scale and virality that technological evolution now allows;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that the increasing use of the internet to market books must be accompanied by measures to ensure cultural diversity, so as to be able to ensure equal access for all to reading, protection of the principle of fair and equitable remuneration for right-holders and diversity of the material published; reiterates the need to maintain fair competition on the single digital market, imposing the principle of interoperability;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on Member States, in cooperation with internet operators, Europol and Eurojust, to make notification and removal procedures more effective in order to delete violent and child-pornography content;