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Reinier Bakels wrote:
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<div><font color="#0000ff">The "droit de suite" directive you refer
to has (indeed) nothing to do with levies. Copies of paintings on USB
sticks are outside the scope of this directive.</font></div>
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Let me call them levies -I cannot translate properly a Spanish proverb,
basically it says that, no matter how a thing is disguised, it remains
being the same thing-, as they are going to be collected -at least in
Spain- by RMOs -though the management of this kind of levy by RMOs is
voluntarily decided by the rightholders, while the private copies levy
is in Spain forcibly managed by RMOs-. Actually, this Directive -and
its Spanish implementation- follows a typical black comedy joke about
levies being applied even to paper sheets -just in case they are used
to contain copyrighted works xD-; in this case, the levies are applied
to the physical medium for the paintings.<br>
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If RMOs has not such amount of power in Netherlands, I'm truly glad to
hear it.<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Whether the (professional) trade in art is
something to be concerned about - you are entitled to have your
opinion, but I see other MUCH MORE urgent issues.</font><br>
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Having <i>much more urgent</i> issues doesn't mean to forget the <i>much
less urgent</i> ones; let me use italic font-style as for PIRATA is an
interesting issue -at least to be echoed in our official blog-, and let
people in PPI decide whether it is interesting enough or not to do the
same.<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Incidentally, the trade of art is subject
to very specific regulations. A PhD candidate in our university is
working on a thesis about this subject. And there is a specific role
for UNESCO. While we usually find too much copyright, copyright is not
always suited for true protection of genuine cultural values.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">But I guess this is mostly beyond the
scope of mainstream PP activism. </font></div>
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Wrong. From <a
href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0084:EN:HTML">2001/84/EC
Directive</a>, "<i>the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary
and Artistic Works
provides that the resale right is available only if legislation in the
country to which the author belongs so permits</i>" (preamble, 6th
paragraph), "<i>pursuant to Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October
1993 harmonising
the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights(6), the
term of copyright runs for 70 years after the author's death. The same
period should be laid down for the resale right</i>" (preamble, 17th
paragraph) and "<i>the term of protection of the resale right shall
correspond to that laid down in Article 1 of Directive 93/98/EEC</i>"
(article 8.1); while you don't have to believe me, you can ask that PhD
candidate of your university about these facts -because they are facts,
I mean, they are wording from the Directive-. This Directive is
directly related to author's rights issues -it's one of them-.<br>
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I'm pretty sure that all issues concerning Berne Convention and
Directive 93/98/EEC, as long as they affect directly author's rights,
are within PPI (not PP) activism; they may have less priority, yet they
have at least some priority.<br>
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<br>
Carlos Ayala<br>
( Aiarakoa )<br>
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Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman
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