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"Madam President, Commissioner, in Europe growth is now a necessity we can no longer put off.
It depends also on liberalisation measures addressing the obstacles and privileges that are strangling the internal digital market as well. Among these is the need for a new copyright regime, in particular for collective rights management, given that copyright represents 7% of our European gross domestic product (GDP).
Reform is urgent, Commissioner, and we have awaiting it for a long time now. It has been announced many times with deadlines and dates that have never been respected, as you have indirectly admitted. We have been waiting for this directive for over two years, just as we have been hoping that the subject of Directive 2004/48/EC on the Enforcement of Property Rights and Directive 2001/29/EC would be addressed by an up-to-date scheme of exceptions. One had hoped that it would come to pass within this parliamentary term.
Yet today our debate is contaminated with ‘ideologisms’ that artificially set artists in conflict with the right of free access to the web, in a paralysing conflict that is both noxious and sterile. All this must be resolved with innovative legal and technological ideas for a new concept of artists’ rights, which begins in the first place with their management. Although interesting proposals and opinions have been put forward, no progress has been made on this idea.
Mr Barnier, you had significant success with patents, for which I congratulate you because I hold you in high esteem. On this issue, however, you are stalling. Why? Both you and the rapporteur, Ms Gallo, have spoken of genuine difficulties which, as you have said, partly justify this delay.
The problem is that existing collective management companies and record companies represent powerful interests that are defending their patch. That is the main obstacle. I say no to territoriality, no to reasonable derogations, no to broad collective licences, no to incentives for new business models, no to greater transparency, no to interoperability for format shifting. All this is what makes for delay.
What we need are well-fashioned reforms that do not create oligopolies capable of distorting the market, the cultural industries and small players and of stifling diversity and the cultural wealth of Europe. That is why we are hoping that this ‘spring’, awaited so earnestly by all, will finally arrive."@en1
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