5 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2016/0278(COD)
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Union Directives in the area of copyright and related rights provide legal certainty and a high level of protection for rightholders. This harmonised legal framework contributes to the proper functioning of the internal market and stimulates innovation, creation, investment and the production of new content, including in the digital and online environment. It also aims to promote access to knowledge and culture by protecting works and other subject- matter and by permitting exceptions or limitations that are in the public interest. A fair balance of rights and interests between rightholders and users should be safeguarded.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled continue to face many barriers in accessing books and other print material which are protected by copyright and related rights. Measures need to be taken to increase the availability of those works in accessible formats and to improve their circulation in the internal market in order to ensure access to knowledge and information.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Directive is designed for the benefit persons who are blind, have a visual impairment which cannot be improved so as to give those persons visual function substantially equivalent to that of a person who has no such impairment, or have a perceptual or reading disability, including dyslexia, preventing them from reading printed works to substantially the same degree as persons without such disability, or are unable to hold or manipulate a book or to focus or move the eyes to the extent that would be normally acceptable for reading due to a physical disability. The objective of the measures introduced by this Directive is to improve the availability of books, including e- books, journals, newspapers, magazines and other writings, sheet music and other print material, including in audio form, whether digital or analogue, online or offline, in formats that make those works and other subject-matter accessible to those persons to substantially the same degree as to persons without an impairment or disability. Accessible formats include Braille, large print, adapted e-books, audio books and radio broadcasts.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16 a) The European Commission will carry out a feasibility study and an impact evaluation concerning the introduction of types of mandatory exceptions to copyright similar to those proposed in this legislation, for persons with other types of disabilities.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘'work and other subject- matter’' means a work in the form ofboth tangible and digital format, such as a book, journal, newspaper, magazine, e-book, or other writingtypes of written or illustrated material, including sheet music, and related illustrations, in any media, includings well as in audio formsat such as audio-books, which is protected by copyright or related rights and which is published or otherwise lawfully made publicly available; through any media, including the digital format and the online environment.