8 Amendments of Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ 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, employment and the production of new content, including in the digital 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 #
(3) Persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled, including those with physical disabilities unable to hold or manipulate a book, 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.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Directive is designed for the benefit of 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, or as a result of a learning disability, 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, 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 24 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ʻthe UNCRPDʼ), to which the EUnion is a party as of 21 January 2011, guarantees people with disabilities the right of access to information and to communication and the right to participate in cultural, economic, political, work and social life on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD requires parties to the Convention to take all appropriate steps, in accordance with international law, to ensure that laws protecting intellectual property rights do not constitute an unreasonable or discriminatory barrier to access by persons with disabilities to cultural materials.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the Union prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and recognises and respects the right of people with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community.
Amendment 29 #
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 of a book, journal, newspaper, magazine or other writing, including sheet music, and related illustrations, in any media, online or offline, including in audio forms such as audiobooks, which is protected by copyright or related rights and which is published or otherwise lawfully made publicly available;
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point c
(c) a person who has a perceptual or reading disability, including dyslexia, also due to a learning disability, and is, as a result, unable to read printed works to substantially the same degree as a person without an impairment or disability; or
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1