Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-115"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Copyright and related rights in the Information Society2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.6.2-115"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-1162
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (1999-10-08--2001-09-09)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, all copyright consists in a balancing of two sets of interests, on the one hand the authors’, producers’ and production systems’ interests and, on the other hand, the consumers’ interests. It might be said that consumers’ interests are society’s interest in seeing the dissemination of both knowledge and cultural expression rather than the suppression of these and their subordination to the interests of capital. Naturally, creators and authors must, and ought to, be assured of a fair economic return, but I have to say that, for me and the People’s Movement I represent, there are two crucial main points. The first is to ensure the public’s or consumers’ interest in being able to use both knowledge and culture. In Denmark, the country I come from, we have a very well developed tradition of youth and adult education, and this must not be interfered with. The second point is that the systems of enforcement and sanctions that have been developed and are practised in the different legal cultures in the different countries must not be interfered with either. We have our own special system in Denmark, and I do not think it should be substantially interfered with. I can say that I have seldom been exposed to such intensive lobbying as in connection with this proposal, and that is by no means strange. There are billions of kroner and euros in the system in a sector dominated on the producer side by, above all, the American entertainment industry, but it is not of course this that we must mainly take an interest in. I might also add that copyright is, of course, among the most complicated aspects of the legal world and that, within the copyright field, the law relating to digital products is practically incomprehensible. I cannot imagine that more than a few per cent of MEPs at the most have any idea at all of what the problems really relate to. Against this background, it is an interesting fact, and one worth noting, that the proposal has been so balanced that I shall recommend my group to vote in favour of it."@en1

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