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"Mr President, it is a great privilege to take part in this important debate. I am a bit sad that the tone of the debate has been in part negative and guarded. We need to remember that new communication media have in fact liberated interaction between people and ideas and between people and people. Of course, that does give rise to some reasonable concerns about the protection of legitimate copyright interests in this age. Meeting these concerns must not result in obstructing the ordinary person, the scholar or the scientist from accessing and using materials that are subject to copyright.
The balance between producer interest and consumer interest has been stressed in this debate and is the balance that we have to try and strike. If we in the Union were to strike the wrong balance, it would seriously inhibit the democratic openness of discussion that the Internet and related media facilitate. If, for example, unreasonable restraints are placed on libraries, students, scholars and scientists will be the sufferers. The Inter-Library Loan scheme might become an accidental casualty of change.
The draft directive before us refers critically in Article 5.5 to the well-established restraints on fair practice that are enshrined in the Berne Convention. Subject to this, Member States will be able to create regulated limits on copyright interests for the benefit of disabled people, private consumers, public libraries and museums and some others. That is permissive – Member States will not, in any case, be required to do it. It will be a matter for local judgment guided by subsidiarity.
As an author myself, I yield to no one in maintaining the rights of authors and performers – I add "performers" deliberately – to fair recognition and reward, but these values will be misapplied if they are used as a ground for obstructing reasonable limitations on commercial copyright interests and, I stress "the commercial interests", which we need to differentiate from the moral right of the author, which is expressly excluded from this directive. Like others, I am delighted with Mr Boselli's work and I hope that we will pass this with relatively few changes."@en1
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