The EU copyright reform’s proposal – which impacts on users’ fundamental rights? – WS 07 2017

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7 June 2017 | 11:00 - 12:30 | Room Tartu, Swissotel, Tallinn, Estonia | video record
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Session teaser

The EU copyright reform's proposal - which impacts on users' fundamental rights?

Keywords

EU copyright reform, censorship, intermediary liability, user-generated content, blockchain

Session description

The European copyright reform proposal - published last September and currently reviewed by the EU Parliament and the Council of the EU - could dramatically alter digital services as we know them. By requiring Internet services to implement content-filtering technologies to monitor user-generated content and creating a new exclusive right for press publishers (thereby hindering the free flow of information on the Internet), this proposal raises complex questions, with significant repercussions at a global scale on users' fundamental rights, intermediaries' liability and the use of copyright-protected content by Internet users

Format

Workshop with

  1. presentation of the speakers by moderator and session's description;
  2. short remarks at the beginning from each key participants;
  3. discussion between participants following questions from moderator until 11:40;
  4. open discussion with people in the room and online (half of questions taken from the room, other half from online participants)

Further reading

Until 30 April 2017. Links to relevant websites, declarations, books, documents. Please note we cannot offer web space, so only links to external resources are possible. Example for an external link: Main page of EuroDIG

People

Focal Point:

  • Maud Sacquet, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Subject Matter Expert (SME):

  • Yrjö Länsipuro (ISOC Finland)

Key Participants

  • Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt, Policy Advisor, International Music Managers Forum
  • Samuel Laurinkari, Head of EU Affairs, eBay
  • Eva Lepik, Wikimedia

Moderator

  • Maud Sacquet, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Remote Moderator

Organising Team (Org Team)

  • Jan Gerlach
  • Christian Borggreen
  • George Hari Popescu
  • Susan Chalmers
  • Walid Al-Saqaf
  • Narine Khachatryan

Reporter

  • Maud Sacquet

Video record

https://livestream.com/accounts/12493954/events/7461538/videos/157703387

Messages

  1. Concerns about how technology revolutionises the commercial world and current business models being incompatible with the new obligations e.g. content-filtering technologies. Consensus that filtering obligations for intermediaries are a bad idea.
  2. Discussion about how automatic monitoring could be problematic and how they could affect other rights such as human rights.
  3. Ensuring that the reform proposal address other rights such as freedom of panorama. Possibility of harmonisation for not only non-commercial use but commercial use too.
  4. The copyfighters prepared a position paper reflecting the youth position on a modern copyright reform. They identified 7 key areas in need of reform including: territoriality, geoblocking, fair use, intermediaries, remix culture, education - open access and ancillary right for press publishers.
  5. A broad consensus that Art.13 is problematic. Discussions on the uncertainty and concerns about culture heritage.
  6. Geoblocking - consensus that there should not be geoblocking. However, there is a counterpoint that geoblocking should be allowed for promotional purposes by artists to allow for short time goals such as timed content release.
  7. An addition for a fair use exception to existing copyright exceptions that would be future proof. However, it was recognised that it would be very difficult, nearly impossible.
  8. Important to educate on copyright. However, it is remarked that this should be a simple education and that an interesting objective would be for copyright to become invisible for most internet users.

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.