[Advocacy Advisors] Proposed law in Spain

Wed May 14 08:10:40 UTC 2014

Hi all,

this is very interesting, because Spain has never been on the forefront of
copyright law improvement. In Germany, we are facing a similar development,
based on a private initiative. The so-called "Cultural Commons Collecting
Society" [1]  was succesfully crowdfunded as an alternative to the existing
and very intransparent GEMA, now waiting for final approval by the Federal
Patent Office. In contrast to GEMA, it will facilitate the financial
compensation of CC-licensed musical works.

Best, Jan

[1] https://www.c3s.cc/en/

2014-05-14 0:55 GMT+02:00 Yana Welinder <ywelinder at wikimedia.org>:

> Hi all,
>
> There is a proposed copyright amendment in Spain that a reporter just
> flagged to us and which may be of interest to this group.[1] The proposed
> law would empower IP collection societies to collect compensation on behalf
> of authors from "electronic service providers that aggregate content" when
> they re-use "non-significant fragments of content" from other sites. The
> law does not define "electronic service providers that aggregate content"
> for the purpose of this provision.[2]
>
> The language that is currently proposed does not allow authors to waive
> their right to compensation. Local scholars argue that this provision will
> allow the IP collection societies to collect compensation even for authors
> who chose to CC license their content.[3]
>
> Best,
> Yana
>
> [1]
> http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/27/spain-google-tax-threatens-news-aggregators-sinde-law/
> [2]
> http://derechoynormas.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/derecho-por-agregacion-de-contenidos-en.html
>
> [3]
> http://www.uoc.edu/portal/es/sala-de-premsa/actualitat/noticies/2014/noticia_051/ley_propiedad_intelectual.html
>
>
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