26 Amendments of Helga TRÜPEL related to 2014/2256(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Highlights that adequate protection of copyright works and subject matter of related rights is also of great importance from a cultural standpoint. Article 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union requires the Union to take cultural aspects into account in its action;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Urges to improve the contractual position of authors and performers in their relation to other rightholders and intermediaries;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Reminds that any harmonisation of copyright and related rights must take as a basis a high level of protection;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recommends that the EU legislator should, while protecting personal information, further lower the barriers for re-use of public sector information by exempting official works, which are produced by government employees as part of their official duty within the political, legal and administrative process, from copyright protection;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
Member States shall allow companies to build reserves in accordance with their articles of association.
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas a harmonised legal framework which protects copyright and related rights by establishing a greater degree of legal certainty and a high level of protection can foster substantial investment in creativity and innovation and contribute to growth and greater competitiveness in Europe, as regards both content and the digital economy and, more generally, in broad areas of industry and the arts; whereas in this way existing jobs can be safeguarded and new jobs created;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Reminds that a fair balance of rights and interests between the different categories of rightholders, as well as between the different categories of rightholders and users of protected subject-matter must be safeguarded; the existing exceptions and limitations to the rights as set out by the Member States have to be reassessed in the light of the new electronic environment; existing differences in the exceptions and limitations to certain restricted acts have direct negative effects on the functioning of the internal market of copyright and related rights; such differences could well become more pronounced in view of the further development of transborder exploitation of works and cross-border activities; in order to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market, such exceptions and limitations should be defined and implemented more harmoniously; the degree of their harmonisation should be based on their impact on the smooth functioning of the internal market and improving of cultural production, while ensuring fair compensation of authors; ;Or. en
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Urges the Commission and Member states to provide for an updated exception that allows Libraries, Archives and Museums to make protected works in their collections that are not in commercial circulations anymore or otherwise actively managed by their rightsholders available for online access by the public;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights protects the freedom of expression, the freedom of the arts and scientific research, cultural diversity, intellectual property rights, freedom of information, the right to education and the freedom to conduct a business;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas decisions on technical standards can have a significant impact on human rights – including the right to freedom of expression, protection of personal data and user security – as well as on access to content10 and on the right of creators to receive appropriate remuneration; __________________ 10 Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 16 December 2014 on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Internet policy and governance – Europe’s role in shaping the future of internet governance’.
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for the introduction of Community provisions in the area of contract law applicable to copyright, particularly safeguarding authors' rights to bring their works to the market in case a rightholder has refrained from making use of an exclusive right to the work in question for an extended period of time;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative of conducting a consultation on copyright, which attracted great interest from civil society with more than 9 500 replies, 58.7 % of which came from end users11; __________________ 11 Commission, DG MARKT, Report on the responses to the Public Consultation on the Review of the EU Copyright Rules, July 2014, p. 5.
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern that the vast majority of end-user respondents report facing problemsCalls for measures to examine to what extent problems encountered when trying to access online services across the Member States are relevant for end users, particularly where technological protection measures are used to enforce territorial restrictions;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the necessity for authors and performers to be provided with legal protection for their creative and artistic work; recognises the role of producers and publishers in bringing works to the market, and the need for appropriate remuneration for all categories of rightholders - in the digital environment and in the analogue world alike; calls for improvements to the contractual position of authors and performers in relation to other rightholders and intermediaries;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that a proportionate protection of copyright works and other protected matter is of great importance, including from a cultural standpoint; under Article 167 of the Treaty, the Community is required to take cultural aspects into account in its activity;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that authors and performers must receive fair remuneration in the digital environment and in the analogue world alike;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 i (new)
Paragraph 3 i (new)
3i. Calls therefore on the Commission to consider introducing a levy which can be levied solely by collecting societies and is applicable to the reproduction and making available for commercial purposes of third-party copyright- protected content provided to the general public by service providers within the meaning of Article 14 of the E-Commerce Directive, provided no other contractual arrangements have been made and the rightholder receives no any other remuneration for this;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. ConsidersDemands that the introduction of a single European Copyright Title on the basis of Article 118 TFEU be examined that would apply directly and uniformly across the EU, in accordance with the Commission’s objective of better regulation, as a legal means to remedy the lack of harmonisation resulting from Directive 2001/29/EC;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to safeguard public domain works, which are by definition not subject to copyright protection and should therefore be able to be used and re-used without technical or contractual barriers; also calls on the Commission to recogniseexamine whether individual works may be removed from the catalogue by collecting societies for free licences / public domain use at the freedom of rightholdersquest of the author; also calls on the Commission to examine whether rightholders may be given the right to voluntarily relinquish their user rights and dedicate their works to the public domain;
Amendment 282 #
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 exceedfall below the current international standards set out in the Berne Convention, while refraining from any further extension of the terms of protection;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that exceptions and limitations and appropriate remuneration for creators in the digital environment should be enjoyed without any unequal treatment as compared with those granted in the analogue world;
Amendment 342 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to make mandatory all the exceptions and limitations referred to in Directive 2001/29/EC, to allow equal access to cultural diversity across borders within the internal market and to improve legal certainty; takes the view that any harmonisation of copyright and related rights must be based on a high level of protection, since these rights are crucial for intellectual creation; notes that protecting these rights helps to ensure the maintenance and development of creativity in the interests of creators, performers, producers, consumers, culture, industry and the public at large;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for the adoption of an open normconsideration to be given to an open norm making it possible to react promptly to new technologies and content and introducing flexibility in the interpretation of exceptions and limitations in certain special cases that do not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author or rightholder, in accordance with the three- step test;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the adoption of a mandatoryon the Commission to consider the introduction of an exception allowing libraries to lend books to the public in digital formats, irrespective of the place of access, provided financial compensation (library royalties) is provided;
Amendment 502 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU legislator to preclude Member States from introducing statutory licences for the compensation of rightholders for the harm caused by acts made permissible by an exceptionalleged harm in the form of neighbouring rights for press publishers;
Amendment 513 #
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; __________________ 13 As 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.Urges the legislator to secure the right to (digital) private copying coupled with a levy for a reasonable remuneration that may not be technically limited; __________________