[pp.int.general] What have you done in 2015 to support copyright reform?

[hyazinthe at emailn.de]

Hi folks,

yesterday, unfortunally, I couldn't find the time to call MEPs, but therefore today.
Today I've called another 3 MEPs and basically told them to support the Reda Report.

First I've called Mrs. Kaufmann (S&D - Germany); I didn't talked with her, directly, but
with her employee, who's responsible for the topic copyright reform.
Her employee noted my statements, that creatives in architecture offices break copyright
all the time and that this shows, that current copyright is not a culture impulse, but hinders
creative processes:
• architects use pics from google search for their commercial presentations, no matter what license
• " " google map pics for their landscape plans
• " modify copyright protected fonts for their commercial presentations, if constructive for the design of their presentations
• architects simply take any pic of persons, which appears suiting for their purpose, and create people silouettes out of it for their plans
• etc.

Additionally I've told her that daily use of internet needs to be legalized.
I got the feedback, that the parliament won't vote about the Reda Report and every single amendment of the 556 amendments,
but vote about the end product output of the comitees. So, you see, if we mess up now, the plenary voting won't rescue the fail.

Secondly I've called Mrs. Gebhardt (S&D - Germany). Her employee noted my demands, that Mrs. Gebhard supports the Reda Report
and amendment 507.

Additionally I've got feedback, that in house the Reda Report is considered to be balanced.

The telephone call stopped abruptly, as if someone simply pushed the exit button, but the essential part of the conversation was done, before... so no call back from me or him, yet...

Thirdly I've called the shadow rapporteur of S&D for copyright reform, Dietmar Köster.
My aim was just, to give telephone input hinting on an e-mail, that I'm going to send them regarding
copyright reform. So, I wanted to make sure, that my e-mail gets special attention and won't be buried under
hundreds of e-mails. And so telephone call happened; his employee told me, that Dietmar Köster reads every
e-mail carefully, and right in the first place told me even before my input, that it's prefered that statements
are conveyed via e-mail.
I wanted the e-mail form, because the day before yesterday I've send such a great, profound e-mail to
Mrs. Niebels (PPE - Germany), that I wanted to send him the e-mail, as well, as this was my best quality input, so far.
The said e-mail will be extended by demand to support amendment 507 (legalization of non-commercial filesharing).

That was my thursday noon, 19.03.15. I'd like to hear reports of you, how you currently are supporting copyright reform;
unfortunally noone else reported about how calling MEPs for copyright reform was, yet...


Greetings,
Torben Lechner


--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Von: <hyazinthe at emailn.de>
Datum: 23.02.2015 15:54:30
An: pp-leaders at lists.pp-international.net, pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
Betreff: What have you done in 2015 to support copyright reform?

> Hi all actors reading this,
>
> what have you done in 2015 to support copyright reform in pirate interest?
>
>
> You know that our aim of a copyright reform making copyright socially balanced
>
> and up-to-date is the big bang of the pirate movement; it's the reason why
> we
> are all here and the reason of all pirate structure. It's extremely important,
> that
> we escort the copyright report of our pirate Julia Reda MEP as good as possible
>
> through the parlamentary process.
>
> So, what have you done ?
>
> Have you already look up your country’s MEPs among the
> report’s shadow rapporteurs - https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-evaluation/#shadows
> -
> in the Legal Affairs committee - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/members.html
> -
> (which is driving the report)
> and in the Internal Market - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/imco/members.html
> -
> and Culture committees - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/cult/members.html
> - (which are providing opinions)
> and picked up a phone (! far more effective than e-mail) and asked them to
> support the copyright report of Julia Reda ?
>
> Or, if you have little time and know how in copyright, have you already told
> the aforementioned MEPs, that
> you've heard about the copyright report by the news and were surprised that
> with this copyright report finally
> the EU seems to do politics in interest of the public, instead of against
> the public ?
>
> Have you already told them which additional reform proposals you’d like to
> see in it?
>
> Have you already called shadow rapporteur EFDD Laura Ferrara MEP (Italy)
> - https://juliareda.eu/2014/12/eu-copyright-evaluation/#shadows -
> who is the one shadow rapporteur of all shadow rapporteurs, who is most likely
> interested in picking up concrete pirate demands,
> via phone (!) and suggest her to make an amendment to the copyright report
> of Julia Reda, which
> legalizes non-commercial copying and online distribution of copyright protected
> works and
> reasoned with striking arguments like for instance that without this step
> copyright never will
> be accepted by the public or that the majority of copyright studies prompt
> this step, as the majority of
> copyright studies has shown, that non-commercial filesharing is not harmful
> to business, but even
> conductive to business - https://wiki.laquadrature.net/Studies_on_file_sharing
> ?
>
> Have you already - which would be especially effective - contact your local
> digital rights organization, library association, remix artist or other
> party, which is interested in relaxing copyright, and ask them about their
> plan to support this fight for a copyright reform, which makes
> copyright socially balanced and up-to-date, and offer to help ?
>
> Have you already written a critic/statement about the copyright report, in
> which you concretely
> say that the report goes not far enough in making copyright more relaxed,
> and needs to
> contain abolishment of copyright levies, copyright term shortening on 25
> years after a copyright
> protected work got published, legalization of non-commercial filesharing,
> a revision of international
> treaties like the TRIPS agreement, in order to make copyright more relaxed,
> and went with
> this statement to an appropriate NGO and offered them this statement for
> taking it and sending
> it as the NGO's statement to the aforementioned MEPs ?
>
> Have you already started discussion threads in external forums about the
> copyright reform
> process and asked the audience, to participate like sketched in the aforementioned
> questions ?
>
>
> Finally I'd like to empathize, that this thread here is NOT meant to be
> for moaning about the copyright report of our pirate Julia Reda MEP, but
> for looking forward and getting
> active and making the best of the current situationn. So, if someone starts
> going off-topic and moan,
> that the copyright report is not radical enough and too much of a compromise,
> then please ignore it;
> let's keep everything constructive and practically useful.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Torben Lechner