[pp.int.general] Fwd: [The IPKat] BREAKING NEWS: draft impact assessment on review of EU copyright made available

[Francisco George]

They actually received more than 11.000 responses to their public
consultation actually breaking all records for those public consultation.
The deadline actually had to be posponed from 5/02 to 5/03.

The office of Amelia put online http://copywrong.eu to help people build
their answers
El 28/04/2014 15:29, "seykron" <seykron at partidopirata.com.ar> escribió:

> Is there someone from the PPI participating in this Commission? could
> be possible to send some recommendations? We could make a document with
> recommendations on the draft.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matías
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:38:15 +0200
> Francisco George <francisco.george at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Eleonora Rosati <eleonorarosati at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2014-04-28 13:29 GMT+02:02
> > Subject: [The IPKat] BREAKING NEWS: draft impact assessment on review
> > of EU copyright made available
> > To: ipkat_readers at googlegroups.com
> >
> >
> >
> > <
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hp3p6_GE8xA/U140gJI5DQI/AAAAAAAAEWU/JI2USlrckUs/s1600/photo+(75).JPG
> >
> >
> > *A bit of spice just added to Claire's peaceful morning, courtesy of
> > EU Commission * Statewatch <http://statewatch.org/> has just made
> > available a link to the Commission's draft Impact Assessment (IA) on
> > the modernisation of the EU copyright
> > *acquis*<http://statewatch.org/news/2014/apr/eu-com-IA-value-tree.pdf>.
> > Is this the already famous Commission's White Paper that Commissioner
> > Barnier referred to in a
> > tweet<https://twitter.com/MBarnierEU/status/430618637121359872>in
> > February last?
> >
> > Although this Kat is not so sure that this document is also 'freely
> > available' on the Commission's website in the *Svensson
> > *sense<http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/search?q=%22freely+available>,
> > it is nonetheless an interesting reading considering the good deal of
> > attention *[and responses
> > <
> http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2014/04/commission-publishes-responses-to.html
> >:
> > 11,117 according to Commission's Twitter sources] *that the Public
> > Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright
> > Rules<
> http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/docs/consultation-document_en.pdf
> >
> >  *[here
> > <
> http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-closer-look-at-public-consultation-on.html
> >]*
> > has
> > attracted.
> >
> > The IA is still a provisional version to be finalised in light of
> > responses to the Public Consultation.
> >
> > Among other things, the IA includes an overview of the legislative and
> > non-legislative policy options that the Commission has been
> > considering. These are:
> >
> >    1. "*Relying on the market to improve the availability of content
> >    online, on Member States to take full advantage of the policy space
> >    available under the current legal framework** [= doing nothing]**,
> > and on the courts **[read: the Court of Justice of the European
> > Union]* *to clarify provisions of the Directives relevant to the
> > development of new uses and services.*"
> >    2. "*Commission guidance* *[= soft law, eg Commission
> > recommendations, MoUs, white, green and other colourful papers]* *to
> > Member States as well as to market players, in line with the current
> > legal framework, coupled with support for market initiatives **[such
> > as Licences for Europe
> >    <
> http://ec.europa.eu/licences-for-europe-dialogue/en/content/about-site>?]*
> > *and/or
> >    market monitoring*."
> >    3. "*Legislative intervention aimed at achieving a much deeper
> > level of harmonisation than is currently the case, clarifying the
> > framework for some new uses and services and achieving a more
> > systematic cross-border effect* *[=
> >    re-opening the copyright directives, notably the InfoSoc Directive
> >    <
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:167:0010:0019:EN:PDF
> >]*
> >    ."
> >    4. "*[A] European Copyright Code would be developed. the Code would
> >    establish a unitary title  (covering the whole territory of the EU)
> >    replacing national ones*."
> >
> >  From what this Kat heard at the Fordham IP Conference last week, she
> > would bet that the Commission goes for Option 2. But let's wait for
> > the final version of the IA ...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Posted By Eleonora Rosati to The
> > IPKat<
> http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2014/04/breaking-news-draft-impact-assessment.html
> >on
> > 4/28/2014 12:27:00 pm
> >
>
>
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