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Rights and the functioning of the Single Market
Why is it not possible to access many online content services from anywhere in Europe?

The territorial scope of the rights involved in digital transmissions and the segmentation of the market through licensing agreements

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1. Avez vous rencontré des problèmes en essayant d'accéder à des services en ligne venant d'un autre pays membre de l'UE que celui dans lequel vous vivez ?

2. Have you faced problems when seeking to provide online services across borders in the EU?

3. How often are you asked to grant multi-territorial licences? Please indicate, if possible, the number of requests per year and provide examples indicating the Member State, the sector and the type of content concerned.

4. If you have identified problems in the answers to any of the questions above – what would be the best way to tackle them?

5. Are there reasons why, even in cases where you hold all the necessary rights for all the territories in question, you would still find it necessary or justified to impose territorial restrictions on a service provider (in order, for instance, to ensure that access to certain content is not possible in certain European countries)?

6. Are there reasons why, even in cases where you have acquired all the necessary rights for all the territories in question, you would still find it necessary or justified to impose territorial restrictions on the service recipient (in order for instance, to redirect the consumer to a different website than the one he is trying to access)?

7. Do you think that further measures (legislative or non-legislative, including market- led solutions) are needed at EU level to increase the cross-border availability of content services in the Single Market, while ensuring an adequate level of protection for right holders?

Is there a need for more clarity as regards the scope of what needs to be authorised (or not) in digital transmissions?

The definition of the rights involved in digital transmissions

8. Is the scope of the “making available” right in cross-border situations – i.e. when content is disseminated across borders – sufficiently clear?

9. Could a clarification of the territorial scope of the “making available” right have an effect on the recognition of your rights (e.g. whether you are considered to be an author or not, whether you are considered to have transferred your rights or not), on your remuneration, or on the enforcement of rights (including the availability of injunctive relief)?

Two rights involved in a single act of exploitation

10. Does the application of two rights to a single act of economic exploitation in the online environment (e.g. a download) create problems for you?

Linking and browsing

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11. Est-ce que la mise à disposition d'un lien hypertexte menant à une œuvre ou à d'autres objets protégés en vertu du droit d'auteur, soit de manière générale ou dans des circonstances particulières, devrait être soumise à l'autorisation du titulaire des droits?

12. Should the viewing of a web-page where this implies the temporary reproduction of a work or other subject matter protected under copyright on the screen and in the cache memory of the user’s computer, either in general or under specific circumstances, be subject to the authorisation of the rightholder?

Download to own digital content

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13. Avez vous rencontré des restrictions en essayant de revendre des fichiers numériques que vous avez achetés (par exemple des fichiers mp3 ou des e-books) ?

14. What would be the consequences of providing a legal framework enabling the resale of previously purchased digital content? Please specify per market (type of content) concerned.

Registration of work and other subject matter – is it a good idea?

15. Would the creation of a registration system at EU level help in the identification and licensing of works and other subject matter?

16. What would be the possible advantages of such a system?

17. What would be the possible disadvantages of such a system?

18. What incentives for registration by rightholders could be envisaged?

How to improve the use and interoperability of identifiers

19. What should be the role of the EU in promoting the adoption of identifiers in the content sector, and in promoting the development and interoperability of rights ownership and permissions databases?

Term of protection – is it appropriate?

20. Are the current terms of copyright protection still appropriate in the digital environment?

Limitations and exceptions in the Single Market

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21. Est-ce que ces problèmes découlent du fait que la plupart de ces limitations et exceptions prévues par les directives sur le droit d'auteur sont facultatives pour les États membres ?

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22. Est-ce que certaines/toutes les exceptions devraient être rendues obligatoires, et si oui y a-t-il besoin d'un plus haut niveau d'harmonisation de telles exceptions ?

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23. Est-ce que toute nouvelle limitation ou exception devrait être ajoutée ou retirée du catalogue existant ? Expliquez en vous référant à des cas précis.

24. Independently from the questions above, is there a need to provide for a greater degree of flexibility in the EU regulatory framework for limitations and exceptions?

25. If yes, what would be the best approach to provide for flexibility? (e.g. interpretation by national courts and the ECJ, periodic revisions of the directives, interpretations by the Commission, built-in flexibility, e.g. in the form of a fair-use or fair dealing provision / open norm, etc.)? Please explain indicating what would be the relative advantages and disadvantages of such an approach as well as its possible effects on the functioning of the Internal Market.

26. Does the territoriality of limitations and exceptions, in your experience, constitute a problem?

27. In the event that limitations and exceptions established at national level were to have cross-border effect, how should the question of “fair compensation” be addressed, when such compensation is part of the exception? (e.g. who pays whom, where?)

Acces to content in libraries and archives

28. (a) [In particular if you are an institutional user:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to use an exception to preserve and archive specific works or other subject matter in your collection?
(b) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you experienced problems with the use by libraries, educational establishments, museum or archives of the preservation exception?

29. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

30. If your view is that a legislative solution is needed, what would be its main elements? Which activities of the beneficiary institutions should be covered and under which conditions?

31. If your view is that a different solution is needed, what would it be?

Off-premises access to library collections

32. (a) [In particular if you are an institutional user:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to negotiate agreements with rights holders that enable you to provide remote access, including across borders, to your collections (or parts thereof) for purposes of research and private study?
(b) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to consult, including across borders, works and other subject-matter held in the collections of institutions such as universities and national libraries when you are not on the premises of the institutions in question?
(c) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you negotiated agreements with institutional users that enable those institutions to provide remote access, including across borders, to the works or other subject-matter in their collections, for purposes of research and private study?

33. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

34. If your view is that a legislative solution is needed, what would be its main elements? Which activities of the beneficiary institutions should be covered and under which conditions?

35. If your view is that a different solution is needed, what would it be?

E-Lending

36. (a) [In particular if you are a library:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to negotiate agreements to enable the electronic lending (e-lending), including across borders, of books or other materials held in your collection?
(b) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to borrow books or other materials electronically (e-lending), including across borders, from institutions such as public libraries?
(c) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you negotiated agreements with libraries to enable them to lend books or other materials electronically, including across borders?

37. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

38. What differences do you see in the management of physical and online collections, including providing access to your subscribers? What problems have you encountered?

39. What difference do you see between libraries’ traditional activities such as on-premises consultation or public lending and activities such as off-premises (online, at a distance) consultation and e-lending? What problems have you encountered?

Mass digitisation

40. Would it be necessary in your country to enact legislation to ensure that the results of the 2011 MoU (i.e. the agreements concluded between libraries and collecting societies) have a cross-border effect so that out of commerce works can be accessed across the EU?

41. Would it be necessary to develop mechanisms, beyond those already agreed for other types of content (e.g. for audio- or audio-visual collections, broadcasters’ archives)?

Teaching

42. (a) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer or an institutional user:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to use works or other subject-matter for illustration for teaching, including across borders?
(b) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you experienced specific problems resulting from the way in which works or other subject-matter are used for illustration for teaching, including across borders?

43. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

44. What mechanisms exist in the market place to facilitate the use of content for illustration for teaching purposes? How successful are they?

45. If your view is that a legislative solution is needed, what would be its main elements? Which activities of the beneficiary institutions should be covered and under what conditions?

46. If your view is that a different solution is needed, what would it be?

Research

47. (a) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer or an institutional user:] Have you experienced specific problems when trying to use works or other subject matter in the context of research projects/activities, including across borders?
(b) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you experienced specific problems resulting from the way in which works or other subject-matter are used in the context of research projects/activities, including across borders?

48. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

49. What mechanisms exist in the Member States to facilitate the use of content for research purposes? How successful are they?

Disabilities

50. (a) [In particular if you are a person with a disability or an organisation representing persons with disabilities:] Have you experienced problems with accessibility to content, including across borders, arising from Member States’ implementation of this exception?
(b) [In particular if you are an organisation providing services for persons with disabilities:] Have you experienced problems when distributing/communicating works published in special formats across the EU?
(c) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you experienced specific problems resulting from the application of limitations or exceptions allowing for the distribution/communication of works published in special formats, including across borders?

51. If there are problems, what could be done to improve accessibility?

52. What mechanisms exist in the market place to facilitate accessibility to content? How successful are they?

Text and data mining

53. (a) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer or an institutional user:] Have you experienced obstacles, linked to copyright, when trying to use text or data mining methods, including across borders?
(b) [In particular if you are a service provider:] Have you experienced obstacles, linked to copyright, when providing services based on text or data mining methods, including across borders?
(c) [In particular if you are a right holder:] Have you experienced specific problems resulting from the use of text and data mining in relation to copyright protected content, including across borders?

54. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

55. If your view is that a legislative solution is needed, what would be its main elements? Which activities should be covered and under what conditions?

56. If your view is that a different solution is needed, what would it be?

57. Are there other issues, unrelated to copyright, that constitute barriers to the use of text or data mining methods?

User-generated content

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58. (a) [En particulier si vous êtes un utilisateur/consommateur final] Avez-vous rencontré des problèmes lorsque vous avez voulu utiliser des œuvres préexistantes ou un autre objet pour diffuser de nouveaux contenus sur Internet, y compris au delà des frontières ?
(b) [En particulier si vous êtes un prestataire de services:] Avez-vous rencontré des problèmes lorsque les utilisateurs publient / diffusent un nouveau contenu basé sur des œuvres préexistantes ou un autre objet par le biais de votre service, y compris au delà des frontières ?
(c) [En particulier si vous êtes un ayant-droit:] Avez-vous eu des problèmes dûs à la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisaient des œuvres préexistantes ou d'autres objets pour disséminer du nouveau contenu sur internet, y compris au delà des frontières ?

59. (a) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer or a right holder:] Have you experienced problems when trying to ensure that the work you have created (on the basis of pre-existing works) is properly identified for online use? Are proprietary systems sufficient in this context?
(b) [In particular if you are a service provider:] Do you provide possibilities for users that are publishing/disseminating the works they have created (on the basis of pre-existing works) through your service to properly identify these works for online use?

60. (a) [In particular if you are an end user/consumer or a right holder):] Have you experienced problems when trying to be remunerated for the use of the work you have created (on the basis of pre-existing works)?
(b) [In particular if you are a service provider:] Do you provide remuneration schemes for users publishing/disseminating the works they have created (on the basis of pre-existing works) through your service?

61. If there are problems, how would they best be solved?

62. If your view is that a legislative solution is needed, what would be its main elements? Which activities should be covered and under what conditions?

63. If your view is that a different solution is needed, what would it be?

Private copying and reprography

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64. D'après vous, est-il nécessaire de clarifier au niveau de l'Union Européenne la portée et les applications du droit à la copie privée et des exceptions à la reprographie dans le monde numérique ?

65. Should digital copies made by end users for private purposes in the context of a service that has been licensed by rightholders, and where the harm to the rightholder is minimal, be subject to private copying levies?

66. How would changes in levies with respect to the application to online services (e.g. services based on cloud computing allowing, for instance, users to have copies on different devices) impact the development and functioning of new business models on the one hand and rightholders’ revenue on the other?

67. Would you see an added value in making levies visible on the invoices for products subject to levies?

68. Have you experienced a situation where a cross-border transaction resulted in undue levy payments, or duplicate payments of the same levy, or other obstacles to the free movement of goods or services?

69. What percentage of products subject to a levy is sold to persons other than natural persons for purposes clearly unrelated to private copying? Do any of those transactions result in undue payments? Please explain in detail the example you provide (type of products, type of transaction, stakeholders, etc.).

70. Where such undue payments arise, what percentage of trade do they affect? To what extent could a priori exemptions and/or ex post reimbursement schemes existing in some Member States help to remedy the situation?

71. If you have identified specific problems with the current functioning of the levy system, how would these problems best be solved?

Fair remuneration of authors and performers

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72. Quelles sont les procédures (ou combinaisons de procédures) qui vous permettraient de recevoir une rémunération juste pour l’exploitation de vos oeuvres ou de vos performances ?

73. Is there a need to act at the EU level (for instance to prohibit certain clauses in contracts)?

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74. Si vous considérez que la réglementation actuelle n’est pas efficace, que suggèreriez-vous pour pallier les défauts que vous identifiez ?

Respect for rights

75. Should the civil enforcement system in the EU be rendered more efficient for infringements of copyright committed with a commercial purpose?

76. In particular, is the current legal framework clear enough to allow for sufficient involvement of intermediaries (such as Internet service providers, advertising brokers, payment service providers, domain name registrars, etc.) in inhibiting online copyright infringements with a commercial purpose? If not, what measures would be useful to foster the cooperation of intermediaries?

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77. Est-ce que le cadre réglementaire civil actuel assure que le bon équilibre soit atteint entre le droit de chacun de voir ses droits d'auteur respectés et d'autres droits comme la protection de la vie privée et la protection des données personnelles ?

A single EU Copyright Title

78. Should the EU pursue the establishment of a single EU Copyright Title, as a means of establishing a consistent framework for rights and exceptions to copyright across the EU, as well as a single framework for enforcement?

79. Should this be the next step in the development of copyright in the EU? Does the current level of difference among the Member State legislation mean that this is a longer term project?

Other issues

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80. Y a-t-il d'autres questions importantes liées au cadre juridique de l'UE du droit d'auteur ? Expliquez et indiquez s'il vous plait comment ces questions doivent être abordées.

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