[wos] EU-Konsultation zur Harmonisierung derVerwertungsgesellschaften

[Beate Groschupf]

sehr schöne und gute idee!

bea
----- Original Message -----
From: "Volker Grassmuck" <vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de>
To: <wos at post.openoffice.de>; <privatkopie at mikrolisten.de>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: [wos] EU-Konsultation zur Harmonisierung
derVerwertungsgesellschaften


Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 21. Juni (Hintergund und Links
s.u.).
Das Panel zu Alternative Compensation Systems auf der wos3 ist
am 12.
Juni. Auch über die Panelteilnehmer hinaus werden auf der wos
einige
namhafte Urheberrechtler sein. Wie wäre es, wenn wir dort eine
gemeinsame Stellungnahme an die EU-Kommission verabschieden?
Eine
neue Online-VG oder gar eine neue pauschalvergütete
Online-Lizenz
sind zwar nicht direkt Thema, aber um diese Idee zu lancieren
könnte
es keine bessere Gelegenheit geben. Wenn wir einen möglichst
großen
Stein ins Wasser werfen, wird das schon Wellen schlagen. Was
haltet
Ihr von einer Berlin Declaration on Collectively Managed Online
Rights?

Volker

Original URL:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/european_union_drm/

Europe demands open-to-all DRM tech
By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk)
Published Tuesday 20th April 2004 12:23 GMT

The European Commission this week said the market for digital
content
distribution will not amount to much until the multitude of DRM
systems become interoperable and content licensing takes place
on a
Europe-wide basis.

And it wants to see legislation to force the rules of the
unified
internal market on content licensing agencies and copyright
holders.

The EC's demand should come as music to the ears of Apple,
Napster
and any other digital download provider currently attempting to
license music for sale in multiple EU member states.

Last Friday, for example, Apple Europe chief Pascal Cagni said
that
the European launch of the company's iTunes Music Service might
yet
be delayed
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/19/apple_itunes_euro/)
while
Apple strives to put in place all the licensing deals it needs
to
sell downloads here. Unconfirmed rumour suggests Napster is
facing
similar difficulties.

The EC's comments come after an investigation into how
copyright
needs to be managed in the digital age and what it calls the
"emerging Information society". Essentially, the EC wants to
see a
"true single market" for the provision of intellectual property
rights, according to the EC's Internal Market Commissioner,
Frits
Bolkestein.

"Rightholders and commercial users deserve sound and modern
management of these rights. That is why it is no longer
possible not
to address rights management at European level," he said.

Certainly digital distribution is inherently a border-less
enterprise, and the market has to evolve accordingly. The music
industry's pattern of multiple licensing regimes for each
European
country is increasingly at odds with the EU's goals of a
unified
European market for goods and services.

Cagni for one explicitly blames all those licensing regimes for
the
difficulties Apple is experiencing launching ITMS in Europe.
Those
problems would not exist if a single, Europe-wide licensing
market
was in place.

There's a balance to be struck. The EU said it recognises the
need to
ensure "the necessary protection and remuneration of authors
and
performers are balanced against the demands of commercial
users". In
other words, royalty payments need to be harmonised too.

To achieve all this, the EC wants collecting societies - the
organisations that collect royalties and licence fees on behalf
of
content owners - to be governed through legislation enacted at
a
Community-wide level. "This would make it possible to ensure
that
collecting societies are transparent, and that established
Community
law in the field of intellectual property is properly applied,"
the
EU hopes.

"It would foster the emergence of Community-wide licensing for
the
exploitation of rights," the organisation adds, through "common
rules
on collective rights management and on good governance of
collecting
societies."

Of course, Apple and co. are going to have to give up something
themselves, in return for this unfied licensing regime. In
particular, they must unifty in turn their DRM technologies,
the EC
says.

"A pre-requisite to ensure Community-wide accessibility to DRM
systems and services by rightholders as well as users and, in
particular, consumers, is that DRM systems and services are
interoperable."

The Commission has launched a consultation exercise and is
seeking
comment from interested parties on legislation covering
collective
rights management. It wants to hear from contributors by 21
June by
email (mailto:markt-e4 at cec.eu.int). ®
Related link

The full version of the EC Communication is available here
(http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/docs/
com-
2004-261_en.pdf)

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