European Parliament
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2014-2019)
Reporting Period: 2014-2019
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market
- Cultural diversity
- Fair marketplace for copyright
Social Achievements
- Modernisation of certain aspects of the Union copyright framework to take account of technological developments and new channels of distribution of protected content in the internal market
Governance Achievements
- Harmonisation of Union law applicable to copyright and related rights in the framework of the internal market
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Rapid technological developments transforming the way works and other subject matter are created, produced, distributed and exploited
- Legal uncertainty for rightholders and users regarding certain uses of works and other subject matter in the digital environment
- Difficulties in licensing the online use of press publications to providers of news aggregators or media monitoring services
- Challenges when copyright-protected content is uploaded without prior authorisation from rightholders on online content-sharing services
Mitigation Strategies
- Adaptation and supplementation of the existing Union copyright framework
- Introduction of mandatory exceptions or limitations for uses of text and data mining technologies, illustration for teaching in the digital environment and for preservation of cultural heritage
- Provision of rules on rights in publications, on the use of works or other subject matter by online service providers storing and giving access to user-uploaded content, on the transparency of authors' and performers' contracts, on authors’ and performers’ remuneration, as well as a mechanism for the revocation of rights
- Establishment of a negotiation mechanism for licensing audiovisual works to video-on-demand services
- Introduction of rights related to copyright for the reproduction and making available to the public of press publications
- Clarification that online content-sharing service providers perform an act of communication to the public or of making available to the public when they give the public access to copyright-protected works or other protected subject matter uploaded by their users
- Provision of a specific liability mechanism for online content-sharing service providers