Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-15-Speech-4-104"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-01-15"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040115.4.4-104"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-15-Speech-4-1052
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Cappato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Medina Ortega said that collecting societies are not monopolies; they are associations that serve to protect a weaker section against a stronger section. That is not always true, and I believe that it should be noted, as the rapporteur notes in her report, that an association is an association, whereas an association with a monopoly, of which one is compelled to be a member by laws governing rights and duties, is a monopoly. In my view, monopolies, whether legal or involving collecting societies, are not healthy because they expose amateur artists, for example, to considerable risk of abuse. I am not acquainted with the situation in the rest of Europe; I know that in Italy the sum paid by amateur artists to collecting societies for authors’ rights amounts to a tax which is disproportionate and benefits major artists. Consequently, I consider that an association with a monopoly is not a good association, as a good association should be as unfettered as possible. Therefore, as the rapporteur states, attention and appropriate controls are required to prevent monopoly situations becoming, whether legally or de facto, as often happens – in Italy certainly, and I believe in the rest of Europe too – abuses and pointless taxes to the detriment of amateur artists. In addition to this, if, for example, only associations for the disabled, and not disabled individuals, may avail themselves of the exemption from authors’ rights, there is a risk that authors’ rights will be subject to corporate interests and the final user will not benefit from situations of this kind. I, of course, compliment the rapporteur for the work she has carried out."@en1

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