Copyright legislation for digital media
Posted by Evan Fell on December 12, 2007 at 4:45 PM
“The role of the journalist is key in bringing trusted information to readers… Print media is going to be the most trusted media in the future,” said information society commissioner Viviane Reding at the recent annual Publishers' Forum in Brussels, where publishers exchanged views with the European Commission.
The Publishers' Forum focused on the reality and challenges of digital publishing.
Current copyright legislation was designed for traditional media but the imminent Communication on Online Media would consider copyright legislation for digital publishing, according to Reding.
Reding said, “I am following the Automated Content Access Protocol (www.the-acap.org) project as one of many projects to ensure respect of copyright, with high interest and I very much hope that companies offering search engines will cooperate with ACAP. Here we have good possibilities for a win-win situation for all stakeholders, as publishers can link content with authorisations for access and use in a form that can easily be recognised and interpreted by a search engine crawler and thus helps avoid complex and costly legal disputes between content providers and search engines.”
Francisco Pinto Balsemao, chairman and CEO of Impresa SGPS added that there are currently no long-term incentives for publishers to innovate at a time when they are making huge amounts of content available online to meet their readers' demands. According to him this is due to lack of copyright protection of online content.
Anne Bergman Tahon, director of the Federation of European Publishers said that the commission encouraged publishers to put their work online, they were failing to provide fiscal incentives for them to do so. However, Rolf Diemer, head of unit for VAT, DG taxation and customs at the European Commission said that 0% rates were out of the question.
Source: Bizcommunity.com
Current copyright legislation was designed for traditional media but the imminent Communication on Online Media would consider copyright legislation for digital publishing, according to Reding.
Reding said, “I am following the Automated Content Access Protocol (www.the-acap.org) project as one of many projects to ensure respect of copyright, with high interest and I very much hope that companies offering search engines will cooperate with ACAP. Here we have good possibilities for a win-win situation for all stakeholders, as publishers can link content with authorisations for access and use in a form that can easily be recognised and interpreted by a search engine crawler and thus helps avoid complex and costly legal disputes between content providers and search engines.”
Francisco Pinto Balsemao, chairman and CEO of Impresa SGPS added that there are currently no long-term incentives for publishers to innovate at a time when they are making huge amounts of content available online to meet their readers' demands. According to him this is due to lack of copyright protection of online content.
Anne Bergman Tahon, director of the Federation of European Publishers said that the commission encouraged publishers to put their work online, they were failing to provide fiscal incentives for them to do so. However, Rolf Diemer, head of unit for VAT, DG taxation and customs at the European Commission said that 0% rates were out of the question.
Source: Bizcommunity.com
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