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

by Alan Kilpatrick

#1 BALANCE ACCESS AND PROTECTION

#2 BALANCE STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS

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The following table shows the self-declared category affiliation of survey respondents as published in the consultation website:

Registered in the EU transparency register

Non-registered in the EU transparency register.

Anonymous respondents – Registered

Anonymous respondents - Non Registered

Total %

End users/Consumers 81 4224 1317 5622 58.7 Authors/Performers 97 1612 8 659 2376 24.8 Institutional Users 67 222 16 305 3.2 Publishers/Producers/Broadcasters 105 623 4 97 829 8.6 Service Providers/Intermediaries

34 74 2 3 113 1.2

Collective Management Organisation

51 47 1 10 109 1.1

Member States 11 15 0.2 Public Authorities 2 11 13 0.1 Other 66 121 12 199 2.1

The consultation allowed respondents to identify themselves under more than one category. Many respondents used this possibility. This needs to be kept in mind when considering any classification of respondents into categories. Respondents were also allowed to submit anonymous contributions or to request their contribution to be published anonymously.

This report summarises the position of the different categories of stakeholders for each group of questions, following the structure of the consultation document. We have taken the utmost care to provide an analysis that accurately reflects the submissions of survey respondents within the space limitations of this report. Each section heading refers to the questions relevant to the section. A full list of questions, with their numbering, is provided in the Annex.

III. RIGHTS AND THE FUNCTIONING OF THE SINGLE MARKET

1. Cross-border access to online content (Questions 1 to 7)

Respondents were asked whether they had faced problems when trying to access/seeking to provide online services across borders, and to share their experiences/views as regards multi-territorial licensing and territorial restrictions. Views were also sought on whether further measures (legislative or non-legislative, including market-led solutions) beyond recent

#2 BALANCE STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS

#2 BALANCE STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS

BALANCE AS A COMPROMISE

A good compromise leaves everybody equally unhappy.

#1 How balanced or imbalanced is the

current European copyright?

#2 What direction should re-balancing

efforts take?

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

REFORM NEEDED?

Proposals for each of the 24 issue sections…

…by each of the six core stakeholder groups

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COPYRIGHT DIVIDE IN NUMBERS

When one side is completely satisfied with the status quo and the other is very unhappy then this is not a balanced situation.

#1 How balanced or imbalanced is the current European copyright?

Re-balancing copyright requires at least some reform as demanded by

end users and institutional users.

#2 What direction should re-balancing efforts take?

DATA PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AT

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