The European Parliament has adopted the
\nDirective negotiated with the EU Council presided by Romania on copyright in
\nthe digital single market, a document long-expected by the media and the
\ncultural field, although severely contested by US online platforms and
\nsupporters of freedom of expression on the Internet. It is a crucial moment for
\nEuropean culture, for the digital single market and for protecting European
\nprinciples and values. This Directive will help attain our shared goal, namely
\nto adapt copyright rules to the 21st century. The Directive will help
\nthe media and creativity, EU Commissioner for the Digital Market, Mariya
\nGabriel, said. The EU official said the copyright directive is a key element of
\nthe European Strategy on the Digital Single Market. Talks on this topic had
\nreached a stalemate the moment Romania took over the presidency of the Council
\nof the EU, due to controversies related to striking a balance between the
\ninterests of authors and online platforms. Here is Radio Romania’s
\ncorrespondent in Strasbourg, Carmen Gavrila, with more:<\/p>\n
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The Directive provides for adapting
\ncopyright exemptions and limitations to digital and cross-border constraints.
\nThe document introduces compulsory copyright exemptions for the use of content
\nfor online teaching activities and the preservation and online dissemination of
\ncultural heritage. Moreover, the document improves practices for awarding
\ncopyright licenses in order to ensure a wider access to online content and to
\nachieve of functional copyright market.<\/p>\n
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After three years of heated negotiations
\nbetween the European Parliament and Member States, the document provides for
\nthe enforcement of copyright rules and obligations in the online field as well.
\nThe new rules provides authors and media publishers and possibility of
\nnegotiating copyrights with Internet platforms such as YouTube and news
\naggregators like Google News or Facebook. Additionally, several guarantees have
\nbeen introduced to make sure the Internet continues to observe freedom of
\nexpression. The Directive is also aimed at facilitating copyright-marked
\ncontent for research conducted by means of text and data mining (TDM)
\ntechnologies, thus discarding a major competitive disadvantage researchers
\nworldwide are currently faced with. The Council of the EU is next expected to
\napprove the document. <\/p>\n
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