08/12/2009 Culture, Science, Education and Media
“We cannot continue to offer exclusive protection for copyright in an open and global society, where the new opportunities afforded by the Internet have led to the wide dissemination of creative works,” said today José Luis Arnaut (Portugal, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Culture. “We now have to strike a balance between an adequate level of remuneration for the creative effort, the right to privacy, freedom of expression and access to information,” he added.
In his report on rethinking creative rights for the Internet age, which was adopted today by the Committee, Mr Arnaut described recent developments in legislation and called for a debate on the necessary changes to the law to enable copyright to adapt to the new digital environment.