Julia Reda – Just 9 days left to reject the worst version of EU copyright expansion plans yet
▻https://juliareda.eu/2017/05/alternative-compromise
On June 8, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee will decide its standpoint. This is a crucial step in the copyright reform process, because the IMCO committee is jointly responsible for the Parliament position on one of the most controversial parts of the reform: the introduction of mandatory censorship filters on online services such as social media.
Today it was revealed that MEP Pascal Arimont from the European People’s Party (EPP) is trying to sabotage the Parliamentary process, going behind the negotiators of the political groups and pushing a text that would make the Commission’s original bad proposal look tame in comparison. This is a tactic he recently already successfully applied to prevent the committee from adopting a progressive position on overcoming geoblocking. If he succeeds again, the result would once more do the opposite of what the Committee is tasked to do: Protecting European consumers.
He calls his text an “alternative compromise”, but in reality, it’s no more a compromise than “alternative facts” are facts. His text goes beyond the copyright extension plans by the European Commission and also ignores much more moderate amendments submitted by members of his own political group.
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