16 Amendments of Piotr BORYS related to 2012/2030(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to propose the application of a reduced rate of VAT to online cultural goods and services in order to encourage the development of legal offers;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that micropayments are increasingly used to pay for media and cultural content online; emphasises however that problems associated with online payment systems, such as lack of interoperability and high costs of micro- payment for consumers, should be tackled with a view to developing simple, innovative and cost-effective solutions of benefit to consumers and digital platforms;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Awaits with anticipation the proposal for a legal framework for the collective administration of copyrights with a view to ensuring better accountability, transparency and governance of collective rights management societies, establishing efficient dispute resolution mechanisms, and clarifying and simplifying licensing systems in the music sector; calls on the Commission not to defer the submission yet again;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Requests clarification that internet service providers are obliged to adhere to EU data protection law and EU competition law and to comply with intellectual property rights protection when gathering data within the EU, irrespective of where this data is stored and/or processed; considers that a higher level of transparency regarding the identification of internet service providers should play a key role in fostering consumer confidence, promote best practice in this area, and be a key criterion for the creation of a European trustmark;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines that the Digital Single Market will allow citizens to have access, throughout the EU, to all digital contents and services, whether they are musical, audiovisual, or a video game;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Underlines that digital technologies provide new and innovative ways to customise and enrich the offer and meet consumers' demand, including for tailored cross-border services; calls for better exploitation of digital technologies which should constitute a springboard for both differentiation and multiplication of legitimate offers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses the need to subject cultural works sold online and offline to the same VAT rate; considers, in this context, that the application of reduced VAT rates for online cultural content would boost the attractiveness of digital platforms;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the proposals for increasing availability and developing legal online content services, but highlights that this is inhibited by the EU's fragmented copyright system;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the proposals for increasing availability and developing legal online content services, but highlights that this is inhibited by the EU's fragmented copyright systeme need for copyright law which provides the appropriate incentives, ensures balance and keeps apace with modern technology; considers that the encouragement, promotion and sustainability of multi- territorial licensing in the digital single market should, above all, be facilitated by market-driven initiatives in response to consumer demand;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RegretWelcomes the announcement by the Commission of a new notice and action scheme before the EP has been able to discuss the IP Enforcement Directive, under which such a scheme should be dealt withand recalls in this context that the E-Commerce Directive provides that information society service providers have a duty to act, under certain circumstances, with a view to preventing or stopping illegal activities occurring online;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recalls that Member States also have a role to play by veiling to a rapid and non-bureaucratic implementation of the EU rules, in order to make consumers' rights concrete;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. RegretWelcomes the Commission's proposals for cooperative measures with payment services to combat unauthorised or illegal content; acknowledges that analysing the use of payment services can help identify individuals providing such content; reiterates that the universal and fundamental right to a fair trial before an independent and impartial tribunal established by law must be unequivocally ensured for infringers of IPRstresses that this cooperation should be firmly grounded in a legal framework characterised by respect for data privacy, consumer protection, right of redress and access to justice;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines that all operators, including payment providers and advertisers, have a role to play in the fight against unauthorized or illegal content;