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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 18 2015, @07:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the common-sense-reigns-in-Europe dept.

Julia Reda, the only Pirate in the European Parliament, who has been mentioned here in various contexts now blogs with more good news.

[June 16], the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament passed an amended version of my copyright evaluation report with a broad majority. (Find the detailed breakdown of the votes on my overview page. The final adopted text is not yet available--I will link to it as soon as it goes online.)

The amended report was supported by all political groups--the only two opposing votes were cast by MEPs from the far-right French Front National.

In this report, the Parliament recognises that copyright reform is urgently needed not just to improve the Digital Single Market, but also , to facilitate access to knowledge and culture for all people in Europe. It calls on the Commission to consider a wide variety of measures to bring copyright law up to speed with changing realities and improve cross-border access to our cultural diversity, going further than the plans so far announced by the Commissioners.

For the first time, the Parliament asks for minimum standards for the rights of the public, which are enshrined in a list of exceptions to copyright[...]

  • to allow libraries and archives to digitise their collections efficiently,
  • to enable the lending of e-books over the Internet and
  • to allow the [automatic] analysis of large bodies of text and data (text & data mining).

Related: Julia Reda, the Only Pirate in the European Parliament, Weighs in on Copyright


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:52PM (#198012)

    It must suck to be a band that signed a contract with a recording company before most people were aware that audio files could be delivered via the 'Net.

    Years ago, Nine Inch Nails, Courtney Love, et al were saying to do it yourself via your own domain.
    Middlemen are absolutely NOT necessary.

    ...and go out and PERFORM.
    Bands who make big bucks get that by doing CONCERTS.
    It's -always- been that way.

    .
    Another interesting example is the Jazz band Down to the Bone. [wikipedia.org]
    The guy who "writes" their songs doesn't appear to read (or write) music, doesn't perform with them, and doesn't play an instrument--yet he seems to make money from this undertaking.

    slave owners

    One more data point: Bob Crosby was NOT the "boss" of The Bob Crosby Orchestra (nor The Bobcats).
    They used his name in the band's name because his big brother was already famous.
    Way back into the 1920s, those bands were worker cooperatives.
    Everybody got an equal vote on decisions and the pay was distributed evenly among all the workers.

    ...and Bob Crosby didn't read music or play an instrument either.

    -- gewg_