Liebe Mitlesende,

da auf unseren Listen hier noch nicht aufgeschlagen:

die Content-Industrie macht Druck auf die EU eine Art permanente Internet-Filterung samt DRM einzurichten.

Eine kurze Zusammenfassung von EDRI in Deutsch:

http://www.unwatched.org/node/820 und: http://www.unwatched.org/node/792

Dieses Vorgehen legt auch bei mir den Schluss nahe die Sache unter "Menschenrechte" anzugehen. Wenn ersteinmal das Web gefiltert wird und entsprechende Strukturen aufgebaut wurden, kann auch alles andere gefiltert werden - unabhängig davon das DRM misst ist.

Weitere Informationen in English von Cristof, Andre und Erik unten in Ausschnitten. Ist die FSFE und das Netzwerk Freie Wissen schon in dem Prozess dabei? Wenn nicht, wäre ich sehr, sehr, sehr dafür!!!

Liebe Grüße Ingmar

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English: http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.1/creative-content-online and http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.24/creative-content

The CULT-Amendments will be adopted for the 18 February session. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5498632 Usually tabling deadline for plenary is Wednesday before at 6. 13 Feb.

Before that, it is possible to work on details, see below at the end of this mail.

Regards, Ricardo Cristof

P.S.: Following is a mix of different mails from the ad-hoc-working group, we founded at the 24c3. We will have a follow-up-meeting at 22/23 February in Brussels.

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André Rebentisch wrote:

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p.cohet wrote:

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What can be done 'undeground' or stealthier at the PE level according to you?

Prepare some amendments for the plenary and convince a group to table them or at least ask them what is going on, shift the debate away from internet filtering stuff, make it human rights, creative people.

I agree with André that something we can do is to "ask them what is going on". But that requires that we read up on what is public first. I paste "another Bono" below, the Graça Moura Report: "European agenda for culture in a globalising world".

27/02/2008 EP: report scheduled for adoption in committee, 1st or single reading 10/04/2008 EP: probable part-session scheduled by the DG of the Presidency, 1st reading 21/05/2008 Council: resolution expected

But I'd also say that it is only after you have shown you know a file quite well (e.g. the Bono report), your offer to help to draft amendments will be accepted.

There are a number of ways MEP assistants can pass on, or not pass on, your offer. It's their job to be a spam filter and message counter.

//Erik

Here's the file (MediaWiki-format):

OEIL overview: [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5532002 European agenda for culture in a globalising world] ---- Accessible documents per 20070124 (with IPR sensitive excerpts):

Committee on Regional Development

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/regi/regi_20080122_...

nothing:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/692/692020/692...

nothing:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/697/697599/697...

page 6:

(e.g. the Digital Libraries Initiative which aims at making Europe's diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier to access online) or research (with the Research Framework Programmes).

There is a strong link between the promotion of culture and creativity and EU copyright and related rights legislation. This legislation protects the rights of authors, producers and artists to ensure they receive adequate revenue for their works while allowing a wide dissemination of protected works or phonograms, thereby promoting citizens' access to Europe's rich and diverse cultural heritage.

reference: See study on the Economy of Culture in Europe, conducted by KEA for the European Commission, 2006, at http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eac/sources_info/studies/studies_en.html.

(all in all, this is all fluffy and nice)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/com/com_com(2007)...

---- Committee on International Trade

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/inta/inta_20080122_...

H. whereas new media technologies, including open source based internet portals and services and their development, require an increasing amount of content to fill them, I. whereas these developments pose unprecedented threats that deserve attention from the E U and its Member states with regard to the infringement of intellectual property rights, piracy, and unauthorised digitalisation, J. whereas counterfeiting and piracy of cultural products lead to job losses in the E U, undermine the competitiveness of cultural industries and the quality of products, K whereas ultimate power has been conferred on the Commission to protect intellectual property rights of European industries in all international fora as well as before some trade partners that have a very poor record in this field, L. whereas culture is specifically included in the EU's free-trade agreements (FTA) and other trade instruments,

2. Calls on the Commission to take the appropriate measures to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights according to the Unionâ??s acquis communautaire, World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and EU bilateral agreements in order to eradicate counterfeiting and piracy; 3. Calls on the Commission to use its powers to ensure that all trading partners enforce the obligations of the agreements within the framework of WTO and international trade law, including the eventual activation of dispute settlement instruments provided for by international agreements;

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/692/692549/692...

Amendment by Georgios Papastamkos Amendment 14 Recital Î? Î?. whereas these developments call for new thinking on how to manage and regulate issues that affect the protection of intellectual property rights, piracy, and unauthorised digitalisation, and this deserves attention from the EU and its Member States; however, measures to combat these phenomena must not check the increasing trend, through the Internet, towards new forms of artistic and intellectual creation and the exchange of information and knowledge,

Amendment by Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl Amendment 19 Recital I I. whereas these developments pose unprecedented threats (deletion) with regard to the infringement of intellectual property rights, piracy, and unauthorised digitalisation, and whereas this deserves attention from the EU and its Member States,

Amendment by Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl Amendment 22 Recital K K. whereas ultimate power has been conferred on the Commission to protect intellectual property rights of European industries in all international fora as well as before those trade partners that do not have adequate legislation in this field,

Amendment by Caroline Lucas Amendment 27 Paragraph 2 2. Calls on the Commission to take the appropriate measures to initiate a thorough revision of the protection of intellectual property rights, in order to better balance the conflicting goals of right-holder protection and free and fair access to cultural products and services in the Unionâ??s acquis communautaire, World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and EU bilateral agreements in order to eradicate the root causes of counterfeiting and piracy;

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/am/701/701610/701...

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Committee on Development

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/deve/deve_20071217_...

nothing:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pa/698/698230/698...

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Committee on Culture and Education

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/organes/cult/cult_20080121_...

12. Calls on the Commission to devise means serving to identify sectors in crisis in European cultural industries, focusing particular attention on the publishing market, in which the trend has been such that high-quality creative writing is now in danger of being eclipsed by best-sellers, and on the world of music-making, the quality and diversity of which are likewise being threatened by the worldwide spread of digital technologies by the concentration processes entailed in collective rights management and by piracy;

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pr/683/683736/683...

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INI/2008/2011 - Measures to support alternative media in Europe in order to guarantee a pluralistic media environment and cultural diversity

Culture and Education (responsible) Resetarits Karin ALDE 11/09/2006 Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (opinion) no rapporteur yet

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5581672

Resetarits is Austrian and came via the eurosceptic "Liste Martin" in the European Parliament, now ALDE.

And we have a report

INI/2007/2253 Media concentration and pluralism in the EU http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=2&procnum=INI/2... Culture and Education (responsible) Mikko Marianne PSE 11/09/2006 Economic and Monetary Affairs (opinion) Chatzimarkakis Jorgo ALDE 19/06/2007 Industry, Research and Energy (opinion) Belet Ivo

What can you do now? -------------------------------------- - develop a wishlist of your media policy amendments that should be as *operational* as possible (e.g. "asks the Commission to present a strategy for more interoperability in media environments") and difficult to get messed up by quick 30 second "blitz amendments". - alert affected parties - monitor the process and stay in touch, ensure that tabling deadlines are not missed and you let sneak your stuff in. - as there is no report yet, talk to the rapporteurs in order to get your stuff in as early as possible. - adopt your personal initiative report as your pet project

It was a great surprise to me to see parts of the amendments proposals I wrote "en passent" month ago, following an alert on our IPRED2 mailing list that the report was hijacked and the request of a consumer org to do last minute action, tabled by an MEP for the main report of Guy Bono and parts of them adopted by the CULT Committee. Let's hope the best for the plenary but I guess it will just sneak through.

This is the way to get on a progressive road and it is all low effort. The average old industry lobbyist is nuts and inefficient but often he is the only one who lobbies at all!

//AndrS