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"I voted in favour of this report tabled by my Socialist colleague Guy Bono on cultural industries in Europe. What are cultural industries? The term may be unusual but although culture cannot be summed up as its economic dimension, it would be just as harmful to obscure this aspect of the matter: culture is now a powerful catalyst for growth and employment and in 2003 it accounted for 2.6% of GDP and 3.1% of jobs in the EU. This text recommends re-launching the European record industry (through a reduced rate of VAT or a European fund to support music) and tackles the issue of piracy, taking into account the need to make access to culture more democratic but also the need to respect intellectual property. In this respect, I supported in particular one amendment – adopted by a margin of 17 votes – contradicting the repressive strategy of a ‘graduated response’ proposed in France in the report presented by Denis Olivennes to the President of the Republic. In my view, it would be not only impracticable but dangerous to entrust service providers – private companies – with the role of monitoring and suspending the Internet connections of people suspected of illegal downloading."@en1

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