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"The ACTA issue is one of the watershed moments in the history of the European Parliament. For the first time in history, young citizens understood just how important is the institution of the European Parliament. The spontaneous grass-roots protest movement against ACTA is a generational event that has breathed new life into democracy. Its participants understood that ACTA could only be blocked on the European level. They understood that the blocking of ACTA on the level of any of the Member States would not de facto stop the provisions of this agreement from coming into force. This decision could only be taken effectively on the level of the European Parliament.
Appropriate lessons should be learned from the ACTA issue. First of all, I fully agree with David Martin, the ACTA rapporteur, that ‘law negotiated and pushed through in secret is generally bad law’. For this reason future negotiations should be completely transparent. Secondly, copyright needs to be adapted to the age of the Internet. A law that a whole generation cannot understand will certainly fail sooner or later. It would be just as well for this to happen sooner and, when creating a new solution, attention should be given both to the creators and the consumers of culture. As a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, I have been opposed to ACTA right from the start. In the light of the above I have also voted against the ratification of this agreement."@en1
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