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"Mr President, as an author and member of the Portuguese Society of Authors, I have a personal interest in a matter in which the cultural standing of European integration itself is also at stake. It makes no sense for Europe to herald the fundamental value of its cultural and linguistic pluralism and, at the same time, render it devoid of meaning. I do not know of a single author in Europe who agrees with the compromise amendments on private copying. This means something. I also wish to say that it would be much better if the directive were to give this satisfaction to authors now and were then to be reviewed within eighteen months.
Most of the exceptions to copyright that are provided for open the way for a cancerous type of process, which will give rise to the wild, uncontrolled proliferation of copyright abuses. The more exceptions are provided for, the further the right to regulate is weakened and the more harm is done to the harmonisation and coordination of national organisations in this field. It is extremely important that the range of exceptions should be limited. It is not enough to remove the possibility of using copies for purposes that are directly or indirectly commercial. Copies are very frequently used for atypical purposes such as exchanges, loans and gifts, and there are many other causes for the uncontrolled proliferation of further copies, which has serious consequences for authors and publishers.
Unless the concept of private use is made to mean only home use or copying with the author’s permission, instead of solving the key problems, the directive will continue to be an incentive to unbridled piracy. To conclude, I shall quote from one of the messages that I have received from various Portuguese authors, one of whom is the Nobel prize winner, José Saramago, who writes: “as artists, we are particularly concerned that large-scale unauthorised copying will make it impossible for all those who make up the creative community to earn a living. Those who have nothing to do with the creative process will consume the fruit of other people’s labours without making any productive reinvestment, unless private copying effectively retains its status as private copying”."@en1
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