Overall he appeared well prepared and knowledgeable on the issues he was asked. On copyright reform, the three main points he made were clear enough:

*Remove territoriality within the EU (meaning: harmonisation)
*Current copyright is prohibitive for text and data mining (meaning: new exceptions/limitations)
*Geo-blocking goes against the core of the digital single market. I will work to abolish it. (meaning: again harmonisation)

Other interesting points he made included:

• *Net Neutrality is important (comment: but then he spoke about search neutrality so I am confused)
• *Right to be forgotten must remain an exception (meaning: unclear)
• *Access to internet is a human right and we need an internet rights charta (comment: sounds great)
• *Data protection is very important (comment: avoided clear wording on what this means)
• *Software code produced for the EU must be open source or free software, coding must be part of school curriculum

Other than that he talked a lot about paperless administration. In relation to Oettinger (Commissioner-designate for Digital Economy and Society) , he sees himself as the "horizontal" commissioner, while his German colleague is the "vertical" one. My favourite and most re-tweeted sound-bite was: "We have to review our copyright legislation especially in regard to territoriality. This is old-fashioned".

Cheers,

Dimi