Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-123"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Copyright and related rights in the Information Society2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.6.2-123"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-1242
lpv:speaker	lp:Luís Marinho2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as we say in my country, ‘until the baskets are washed, it is still harvest time’. In other words, hope remains for authors and performers that this Parliament will have a change of heart, if not today then tomorrow. I say this because I believe that a balance can be reached between the democratisation of knowledge that the new technologies and the Internet offer us with one click of the mouse and the continuity of the creative act, which will die out as a result of non-payment and lack of fair compensation for its value. The virtual contradictions that mask financial interests and demagogic opposition are therefore unacceptable in this real social debate. Let us not be naive, Mr President. Creation and performance are economic factors and always have been. Hence the need for copyright and performers’ rights. Unfortunately, the Commission proposal and the Council common position reveal a degree of thoughtlessness that warrants our criticism. In the name of consumer freedom, the consumption of art is pitted against artistic creation, in the same way that the Council accepts creative freedom as an obstacle to knowledge and to Europe’s citizens becoming enriched by culture. New media technologies are not the enemies of intellectuals and authors, but we cannot pretend that, in this cyber world we live in, protecting the weakest member, i.e. authors, means defending a monopoly. Let us not, in the name of consumers’ rights, sacrifice authors’ rights, and, above all, let us not accept the idea that artistic creation should be suspicious of technology, which is the cardinal sin of the text we are discussing. Mr President, despite the considerable efforts that have been made and despite a certain amount of progress, which is due to the attitude of our rapporteur, whom I warmly congratulate, we still do not have a text that brings together the three fundamental freedoms of the cultural act: the freedom to create, the freedom to communicate and the freedom to consume. Unless we achieve this quickly, some of Europe’s fundamental values will disappear for good. Furthermore, our languages will be of little use if, at the altar of technology, they become merely the remnant of the identity that gives any European uniqueness in the eyes of the world."@en1

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