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"Madam President, today, the European Parliament is about to vote on a legislative proposal that will enable the cross-border use of, and access to, so-called ‘orphan works’. This is an important milestone because this directive will help our public libraries, archives, museums, educational establishments and broadcasters to bring a significant part of the EU’s cultural heritage back to life. It will allow this heritage to be more easily available online for all our citizens to enjoy.
This proposal is important not only because it is a tangible implementation of the intellectual property strategy adopted by the Commission last year, but also because it proves that by working together, it is possible to bridge the gap between copyright and technology in the Internet age. I would therefore like to congratulate the rapporteur, Ms Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, as well as the shadow rapporteurs, Ms Angelika Niebler, Ms Alexandra Thein and Mr Christian Engström, for their constructive and collaborative approach, which made it possible to reach a compromise agreement at first reading with the Council and the Member States. Let me take this opportunity also to congratulate the Presidencies of Poland, Denmark and now Cyprus for their work and their commitment to ensuring a successful outcome.
The proposal before us targets the specific copyright issues relating to orphan works. The lack of knowledge about who owns the rights to a literary, musical or audiovisual work presents our cultural institutions with a dilemma: how can they digitise and put the works online, so that everyone can access them without infringing copyright. The directive resolves that dilemma. It provides our cultural institutions with the legal certainty they need to use orphan works, once they have carried out a diligent search to identify the rights holders.
The text before us is, in some ways, different to the one that we presented to you last year. I will mention, for example, the inclusion of unpublished works and of so-called ‘partial orphan works’, or the setting up of an EU-wide database on orphan works, which will avoid the multiplicity of databases at national level and make it easier for rights holders and beneficiaries to check the status of the use of orphan works. These are very positive changes that the Commission welcomes.
The Commission also welcomes the flexibility shown by the colegislators to enable the beneficiaries to retrieve some of the digitisation costs by allowing them to generate revenues when they use orphan works in the pursuit of their mission of public interest. This is an important consideration, especially given the economic difficulties we currently face.
Finally, I would like to mention that reappearing rights holders, as the case may be, will be entitled to fair compensation for the use made of their works if a number of criteria are fulfilled.
The constructive discussions that we have today and have had over the past year demonstrate our mutual interest in building a digital single market, step by step, block by block, but we must make sure that both European citizens and our cultural institutions are in a position to reap the benefits of the directive as soon as possible. I therefore urge the Council, after Parliament, to support the compromise text agreed in trialogues last June. I would also like to call on the Member States to ensure a timely implementation of the directive once it enters into force."@en1
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