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"Madam President, my thanks to the rapporteur and to everybody who worked on this report. Ms Reda’s report, as we all know, reviewed the 2001 Information Society Directive and as such, or perhaps not as such, it has achieved some notoriety. For an own-initiative report of this kind it has certainly received more attention than perhaps we would have expected. But the report, as a result of that, is both wide-ranging and forward-looking. We had lengthy negotiations amongst all the political groups in the Committee on Legal Affairs, and I believe – and I think my colleagues also believe – that we did eventually achieve a fair balance between the competing interest groups – between consumers and creators. And it is not
consumers
creators: both need to be taken into consideration and both need to be in the reforms that eventually come forward for copyright.
But my focus, and I believe the focus of the Socialist and Democrat Group, has always been on creators – to give creators fair remuneration, to make sure that they are adequately paid. Because if they are not, we will not have music as we know it, we will not have much in the way of television and radio, and we will have very few new books. This is really a matter for our culture across the European Union, and we need to see it in that light.
That is why I welcome very much what the Commissioner said earlier. I do not believe, as Ms Reda said, that we have missed an opportunity. I think what this report, as amended by the committee, does is to put forward constructive proposals which I very much hope the Commission will take on board. And although, of course, we would eventually like to see pan-European laws, at the moment we simply have to take account of Member States’ cultural diversity and we too must ensure that diversity is carried out.
One final word on freedom of panorama. I urge you all to vote to delete the whole of paragraph 46 tomorrow because if we do that, with one press of our button in the European Parliament, it will mean that photographers across Europe can safely continue to press their buttons."@en1
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