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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, many of us have said that Google is practically a global monopoly, which is trying to appropriate the cultural, literary and journalistic heritage of the whole world. Europe should not allow itself to be controlled by Google. Moreover, Google’s strategy of offering the service free of charge is merely a façade, since it makes commodities out of intellectual works in return for more than USD 23 billion in advertising revenue each year.
As you said, Mr Kallas, Europe needs to undertake a digitisation programme. However, the actions brought by authors in the United States against Google Books for plagiarism of their works should not mean that a digitisation model is established here that would also make a commodity out of original literary, journalistic or scientific works.
From this point of view, we would like to know exactly what the Commission means by the frequently used term ‘collective licence’. The idea of creating a European market for authors rights greatly concerns us from this point of view. We should not confuse intellectual works, which are common heritage, with the spirit of business, which involves turning culture into a commodity.
In our view, the European Union, together with the Member States, should therefore guarantee the authors’ rights, the intellectual property rights of writers, journalists and scientists. The public digitisation systems launched in a number of Member States should be supported and combined with the European project, Europeana, in order to prevent the private appropriation of public cultural property.
Before making any decisions, I think that Parliament should initiate a European strategic conference bringing together the European institutions, the Member States, authors’ unions, libraries and even public telecommunications operators, to create a European public digitisation model that respects authors and their works and which makes them accessible to as many people as possible. This project, together with Europeana, should work alongside the other systems that exist in the world."@en1
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