Ja det stämmer - men han är ju där för att representera de ledamöter och väljare som är EMOT en förlängning av upphovsrätten.
Informal Hearing Sound Copyright: Which way for the EU? 27 January 2009 10.00 to 13.00 Room ASP 1E1 Interpretation English/French/German is ensured Chaired by Eva Lichtenberger MEP Green Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament 10:00-10.15 Welcome Words by Helga Trüpel MEP and David Hammerstein MEP 10:15-10:35 Becky Hogge, Director Open Rights Group 10:35-10:55 Mike Collins, Session Musician and Former Representative of the Music Producers Guild) 10:55-11:10 Questions & Answers 11:10-11:30 Pekka Gronow, University of Helsinki, Finnish Broadcasting Archives Sound Archivist and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Helsinki 11:30-11:50 Ruijsenaars Heijo, Legal advisor to the European Broadcasting Union 11:50-12:00 Questions & Answers 12:00 Roundtable discussion with MEPs: Christopher Fjellner (EPP) Sharon Bowles (ALDE) Neena Gill (PSE) Chaired by Helga Trüpel (Greens/EFA), co-president of the Culture Committee 12:45 Conclusion by Helga Trüpel MEP 13:00 End of proceedings Sound Copyright: Which way for the EU? With the European Parliament set to vote on whether to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings, this event looks at the significance and ramifications of this Commission proposal. Speakers will address the implications for copyright creators and users, for innovators and consumers and what it means for those aiming for a modern workable intellectual property policy. Eva Lichtenberger, Helga Trüpel and David Hammerstein have the pleasure to organize a workshop on the proposal for directive aiming at extending the term of copyright. A few weeks before a crucial vote in the Legal affairs committee of the European Parliament in Brussels, and a few months before the final vote in European Parliament in Strasbourg, the "terms of extension of copyright" should not pass unnoticed. It aims mainly at extending the copyright in sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years. The pretext is to help the artists themselves, however there is a fear that this would mainly help the big music industry which owns the rights on the songs and music and seriously harm the access to culture. Another element is that this threatens public domain - it could sentence our cultural heritage to a commercial vacuum, preventing future artists from accessing, and being inspired by sound recordings 50 years ago. On the economic side, it is unclear who would bear the cost of the extension, and those lobbying to extend the term of copyright have presented no evidence to demonstrate the economic benefits of such a move. What evidence that does exist shows that the economic benefit would be marginal, afforded to a handful of major labels and very few artists. Opposition to this Directive comes from the public domains groups, the broadcasters, the Featured Artists Coalition, the Consumers (BEUC, TACD), and many high profile academics (among others Prof. Reto Hilty from the Max-Plank-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; Prof. Lionel Bently from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge; Pekka Gronow, Rufus Pollock and others) This conference is co-organized by the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and the Open Rights Group (http://www.openrightsgroup.org/) Not only did we already have a major victory in ITRE committee, proposing to instead extend the term of copyright to the life of the artist, and proposing clauses to guarantee that the real beneficiary of the extension is the artist and not the music industry. As most political groups are divided, and as the political situation in Council the situation is very complex, it is important to let as many citizens as possible know about it so that they can voice their concern and put an end to this legislation.
Fjellner ska vara med på konferensen om förslaget att förläääääääääänga upphovsrätten. Går av stapelen den 27:e. Ska vi bloggbäva?
SvaraRaderaVi kanske hinner med en liten skakning innan telekompacken går genom parlamentet i april.
Ja det stämmer - men han är ju där för att representera de ledamöter och väljare som är EMOT en förlängning av upphovsrätten.
SvaraRaderaInformal Hearing
Sound Copyright: Which way for the EU?
27 January 2009
10.00 to 13.00
Room ASP 1E1
Interpretation English/French/German is ensured
Chaired by Eva Lichtenberger MEP
Green Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament
10:00-10.15 Welcome Words by Helga Trüpel MEP and David Hammerstein MEP
10:15-10:35 Becky Hogge, Director Open Rights Group
10:35-10:55 Mike Collins, Session Musician and Former Representative of the Music Producers Guild)
10:55-11:10 Questions & Answers
11:10-11:30 Pekka Gronow, University of Helsinki, Finnish Broadcasting Archives Sound Archivist and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Helsinki
11:30-11:50 Ruijsenaars Heijo, Legal advisor to the European Broadcasting Union
11:50-12:00 Questions & Answers
12:00 Roundtable discussion with MEPs:
Christopher Fjellner (EPP)
Sharon Bowles (ALDE)
Neena Gill (PSE)
Chaired by Helga Trüpel (Greens/EFA), co-president of the Culture Committee
12:45 Conclusion by Helga Trüpel MEP
13:00 End of proceedings
Sound Copyright: Which way for the EU?
With the European Parliament set to vote on whether to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings, this event looks at the significance and ramifications of this Commission proposal. Speakers will address the implications for copyright creators and users, for innovators and consumers and what it means for those aiming for a modern workable intellectual property policy.
Eva Lichtenberger, Helga Trüpel and David Hammerstein have the pleasure to organize a workshop on the proposal for directive aiming at extending the term of copyright. A few weeks before a crucial vote in the Legal affairs committee of the European Parliament in Brussels, and a few months before the final vote in European Parliament in Strasbourg, the "terms of extension of copyright" should not pass unnoticed.
It aims mainly at extending the copyright in sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years. The pretext is to help the artists themselves, however there is a fear that this would mainly help the big music industry which owns the rights on the songs and music and seriously harm the access to culture. Another element is that this threatens public domain - it could sentence our cultural heritage to a commercial vacuum, preventing future artists from accessing, and being inspired by sound recordings 50 years ago.
On the economic side, it is unclear who would bear the cost of the extension, and those lobbying to extend the term of copyright have presented no evidence to demonstrate the economic benefits of such a move. What evidence that does exist shows that the economic benefit would be marginal, afforded to a handful of major labels and very few artists.
Opposition to this Directive comes from the public domains groups, the broadcasters, the Featured Artists Coalition, the Consumers (BEUC, TACD), and many high profile academics (among others Prof. Reto Hilty from the Max-Plank-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; Prof. Lionel Bently from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge; Pekka Gronow, Rufus Pollock and others)
This conference is co-organized by the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament and the Open Rights Group (http://www.openrightsgroup.org/)
Not only did we already have a major victory in ITRE committee, proposing to instead extend the term of copyright to the life of the artist, and proposing clauses to guarantee that the real beneficiary of the extension is the artist and not the music industry.
As most political groups are divided, and as the political situation in Council the situation is very complex, it is important to let as many citizens as possible know about it so that they can voice their concern and put an end to this legislation.