[wos] EU-Konsultation zur Harmonisierung der Verwertungsgesellschaften

Sun Apr 25 16:46:05 CEST 2004

ich denke man sollte das inhaltlich- strategisch auch noch einmal
durchdenken. 

die pauschal vergütete online-lizenz wird etwa der musikindustrie eher nicht
schmackhaft zu machen sein. da stellt sich dann die frage was am ende des
tages von solchen forderungen übrig bleibt. eine euro-bürokratische
online-vg, die alle europäisch gehosteten webseiten auf ihre
urheberrechtliche unbedenklichkeit überprüft bzw. zahlungsaufforderungen
verschickt?

vielleicht ist es da sinnvoller in jedem einzelnen land für so viel
schranken-freiheiten wie möglich zu kämpfen. harmonisierung würde ja auch
bedeuten, was in einem land nicht durchsetzbar ist, gilt nirgends. also
vielleicht brauen wir einfach mehr kanada in europa?

heisst jetzt nicht, dass ich es nicht für sinnvoll halte über alternative
kompensationssysteme nachzudenken. man sollte sich aber sehr wohl überlegen,
welche fronten man aufmacht, bzw. welche inhalte unter den gegeben
bedingungen auf welchen ebenen sinnvoll kommuniziert werden können und
welche nicht.

lg thomas 

> 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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