[wos] EU-Konsultation zur HarmonisierungderVerwertungsgesellschaften

[jeanette at wz-berlin.de]

> sehr schöne und gute idee!

Gefällt mir auch sehr gut, nur den Titel des Projekts finde ich noch etwas
cumbersome :-)Kann mich auch noch nicht entscheiden, ob ich zwei Berlin
declarations innerhalb eines Jahres eher vorteilhaft oder eher
nachteilhaft finde.

jeanette
>
> 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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