Brussels, 13/01/2015 (Agence Europe) -The Society of Authors and Dramatic Composers (SADC) considers that the position put forward by the French Minister for Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin, presented on Monday 12 January, is “fair, appropriate and responsible”.
SADC particularly shares the minister's wish to make progress with the status of certain technical Internet intermediaries (social media sites, search engines, etc.). The organisation emphasised that “the major digital platforms benefit from a legal regime in which irresponsibility is very extensive… and now affects activities that were not known about when the rules were drawn up”.
Similarly, authors and composers also support the minister's proposal to facilitate the effective implementation of copyright on the Internet, particularly the initiatives she intends to take for ensuring online advertising agents are made accountable for the action they take.
They also hope that the European Commission will take swift action to tackle counterfeiting and promote the legal supply of intellectual goods. Over the next few months SADC will be supporting action in France and Europe, together with MEPs and the European Commission, to implement copyright and that this, “needs to be defended and promoted”. SADC insists that the Commission's priority objective will need to enhance the protection of content creators. (IL)