Talk prepared for the public hearing of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Culture and Education on "The Future Development of Copyright in Europe", November 11, 2014, in Brussels
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Re-Balancing Copyright: Insights from the EU Consultation
1. Re-Balancing Copyright:
Insights from the EU Consultation
Leonhard Dobusch
Assistant Professor on Organization Theory
Freie Universität Berlin – School of Business & Economics
Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Culture and Education
Public Hearing
The Future Development of Copyright in Europe
European Parliament, Brussels, November 11, 2014
4. published in the consultation website:
Registered in
Non-registered
Anonymous
the EU
in
respondents
transparency
– register
End users/Consumers 81 4224 Authors/Performers 97 1612 8 Institutional Users 67 222 Publishers/Producers/Broadcasters 105 623 4 Service
Providers/Intermediaries
66 121 #STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS
the EU
transparency
register.
2 BALANCE
34 74 2 Collective Management
Organisation
51 47 1 Member States 11 Public Authorities 2 11 Other
6. BALANCE AS A COMPROMISE
A good compromise leaves
everybody equally unhappy.
7. #1
How balanced or imbalanced is the
current European copyright?
#2
What direction should re-balancing
efforts take?
8. The EC Report on
the Copyright
Consultation
in numbers:
100 page summary of 9,500 replies
and a total of 11,000+ messages
80 questions distributed across 24
issue sections structure the report
9 different stakeholder groups
9. REFORM NEEDED?
Proposals for each of the 24 issue sections…
…by each of the six core stakeholder groups
32. #1 How balanced or imbalanced is
the current European copyright?
When one side is completely
satisfied with the status quo and
the other is very unhappy then
this is not a balanced situation.
33. #2 What direction should
re-balancing efforts take?
Re-balancing copyright requires at
least some reform as demanded by
end users and institutional users.