Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-04-23-Speech-1-133"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-04-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enforcement of intellectual property rights (criminal measures) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070423.18.1-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-04-23-Speech-1-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:Manuel Medina Ortega2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-02-02--2007-06-19)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; JURI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report by Mr Zingaretti on the amended proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights is a very balanced proposal that has obtained broad support in the Committee on Legal Affairs and also, to a certain extent, in the other committees that have dealt with the issue. As Mr Zingaretti has pointed out, intellectual property deserves protection and I believe that what the Committee on Legal Affairs has done by means of the various amendments that it has presented is perhaps to tone down some of the terms favoured by Mr Mayer, who has just spoken on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. Specifically, for example, it makes no sense to extend criminal protection to patents — to intellectual property — which in reality is protected in the civil field, given the complications that that may cause. Neither does it make sense to criminalise a series of activities — those of critics, journalists, intellectuals or teachers, who, as a result of simple meeting, may end up ‘behind bars’ — or that of an innocent user of the broadcast media that Internet technology provides us with these days, as a result of which, by pressing a key at a particular time, one may find oneself accused of a criminal infringement. I believe that it is important that we strengthen the criminal protection of intellectual property but that it should be done in accordance with certain principles so that criminal protection is not taken any further than is strictly necessary. Criminal protection is always protection of an exceptional nature, since there are other legislative means for achieving that protection. I believe that Mr Zingaretti’s proposals – the proposal taken up in the report by the Committee on Legal Affairs and the amendments that in the end have been presented jointly with Mr Mayer – enable us to restrict the scope of this criminal protection and that this plenary should therefore approve this report and support the appropriate amendments in the corresponding vote."@en1

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