keyboard_tab Diritto d'autore 2019/0790 EN

TITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE II
MEASURES TO ADAPT EXCEPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS TO THE DIGITAL AND CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENT

• 2 Article 3 Text and data mining for the purposes of scientific research
• 1 Article 6 Preservation of cultural heritage

TITLE III
MEASURES TO IMPROVE LICENSING PRACTICES AND ENSURE WIDER ACCESS TO CONTENT

CHAPTER 1
Out-of-commerce works and other subject matter

• 2 Article 8 Use of out-of-commerce works and other subject matter by cultural heritage institutions
• 1 Article 9 Cross-border uses
• 1 Article 10 Publicity measures

CHAPTER 2
Measures to facilitate collective licensing

• 1 Article 11 Stakeholder dialogue

CHAPTER 3
Access to and availability of audiovisual works on video-on-demand platforms

CHAPTER 4
Works of visual art in the public domain

TITLE IV
MEASURES TO ACHIEVE A WELL-FUNCTIONING MARKETPLACE FOR COPYRIGHT

CHAPTER 1
Rights in publications

CHAPTER 2
Certain uses of protected content by online services

CHAPTER 3
Fair remuneration in exploitation contracts of authors and performers

TITLE V
FINAL PROVISIONS

• article 32
• subject 27
• matter 26
• works 26
• shall 25
• states 15
• rightholders 14
• directive 11
• member 11
• paragraph 11
• collective 11
• exception 11
• provided 10
• management 10
•    member 10
• licence 9
• such 9
• available 9
• limitation 9
• provide 9
• public 8
• //ec 8
• accordance 8
• measures 8
• cultural_heritage_institutions 8
• purposes 7
• from 7
• referred 7
• third 7
• made 6
• state 6
• under 6
• out-of-commerce 6
• organisation 6
• organisations 6
• relevant 5
• reasonable 5
• uses 5
• country 5
• representative 4
• necessary 4
• established 4
• commerce 4
• research 4
• after 4
• ensure 4
• publicity 4
• first 4
• cultural_heritage_institution 4
• permanently 4

Member States shall provide for an exception to the rights provided for in Article 5(a) and Article 7(1) of Directive 96/9/EC, Article 2 of Directive 2001/29/EC, Article 4(1)(a) of Directive 2009/24/EC and Article 15(1) of this Directive, in order to allow cultural_heritage_institutions to make copies of any works or other subject matter that are permanently in their collections, in any format or medium, for purposes of preservation of such works or other subject matter and to the extent necessary for such preservation.

Member States shall consult rightholders, collective management organisations and cultural_heritage_institutions in each sector before establishing specific requirements pursuant to Article 8(5), and shall encourage regular dialogue between representative users' and rightholders' organisations, including collective management organisations, and any other relevant stakeholder organisations, on a sector-specific basis, to foster the relevance and usability of the licensing mechanisms set out in Article 8(1) and to ensure that the safeguards for rightholders referred to in this Chapter are effective.

• (8) New technologies enable the automated computational analysis of information in digital form, such as text, sounds, images or data, generally known as text_and_data_mining.

    Text and data mining makes the processing of large amounts of information with a view to gaining new knowledge and discovering new trends possible.

    Text and data mining technologies are prevalent across the digital economy; however, there is widespread acknowledgment that text_and_data_mining can, in particular, benefit the research community and, in so doing, support innovation.

    Such technologies benefit universities and other research_organisations, as well as cultural_heritage_institutions since they could also carry out research in the context of their main activities. However, in the Union, such organisations and institutions are confronted with legal uncertainty as to the extent to which they can perform text_and_data_mining of content.

    In certain instances, text_and_data_mining can involve acts protected by copyright, by the sui generis database right or by both, in particular, the reproduction of works or other subject matter, the extraction of contents from a database or both which occur for example when the data are normalised in the process of text_and_data_mining.

    Where no exception or limitation applies, an authorisation to undertake such acts is required from rightholders.


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• (11) The legal uncertainty concerning text_and_data_mining should be addressed by providing for a mandatory exception for universities and other research_organisations, as well as for cultural_heritage_institutions, to the exclusive right of reproduction and to the right to prevent extraction from a database.

    In line with the existing Union research policy, which encourages universities and research institutes to collaborate with the private sector, research_organisations should also benefit from such an exception when their research activities are carried out in the framework of public-private partnerships. While research_organisations and cultural_heritage_institutions should continue to be the beneficiaries of that exception, they should also be able to rely on their private partners for carrying out text_and_data_mining, including by using their technological tools.


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• (13) Cultural heritage institutions should be understood as covering publicly accessible libraries and museums regardless of the type of works or other subject matter that they hold in their permanent collections, as well as archives, film or audio heritage institutions. They should also be understood to include, inter alia, national libraries and national archives, and, as far as their archives and publicly accessible libraries are concerned, educational establishments, research_organisations and public sector broadcasting organisations.


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• (14) Research organisations and cultural_heritage_institutions, including the persons attached thereto, should be covered by the text_and_data_mining exception with regard to content to which they have lawful access. Lawful access should be understood as covering access to content based on an open access policy or through contractual arrangements between rightholders and research_organisations or cultural_heritage_institutions, such as subscriptions, or through other lawful means. For instance, in the case of subscriptions taken by research_organisations or cultural_heritage_institutions, the persons attached thereto and covered by those subscriptions should be deemed to have lawful access. Lawful access should also cover access to content that is freely available online.


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• (15) Research organisations and cultural_heritage_institutions could in certain cases, for example for subsequent verification of scientific research results, need to retain copies made under the exception for the purposes of carrying out text_and_data_mining.

    In such cases, the copies should be stored in a secure environment.

    Member States should be free to decide, at national level and after discussions with relevant stakeholders, on further specific arrangements for retaining the copies, including the ability to appoint trusted bodies for the purpose of storing such copies. In order not to unduly restrict the application of the exception, such arrangements should be proportionate and limited to what is needed for retaining the copies in a safe manner and preventing unauthorised use.

    Uses for the purpose of scientific research, other than text_and_data_mining, such as scientific peer review and joint research, should remain covered, where applicable, by the exception or limitation provided for in Article 5(3)(a) of Directive 2001/29/EC.


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• (25) Cultural heritage institutions are engaged in the preservation of their collections for future generations. An act of preservation of a work or other subject matter in the collection of a cultural_heritage_institution might require a reproduction and consequently require the authorisation of the relevant rightholders. Digital technologies offer new ways of preserving the heritage contained in those collections but they also create new challenges. In view of those new challenges, it is necessary to adapt the existing legal framework by providing for a mandatory exception to the right of reproduction in order to allow such acts of preservation by such institutions.


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• (26) The existence of different approaches in the Member States with regard to acts of reproduction for preservation by cultural_heritage_institutions hampers cross-border cooperation, the sharing of means of preservation and the establishment of cross-border preservation networks in the internal market by such institutions, leading to an inefficient use of resources. That can have a negative impact on the preservation of cultural heritage.


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• (27) Member States should, therefore, be required to provide for an exception to permit cultural_heritage_institutions to reproduce works and other subject matter permanently in their collections for preservation purposes, for example to address technological obsolescence or the degradation of original supports or to insure such works and other subject matter.

    Such an exception should allow the making of copies by the appropriate preservation tool, means or technology, in any format or medium, in the required number, at any point in the life of a work or other subject matter and to the extent required for preservation purposes. Acts of reproduction undertaken by cultural_heritage_institutions for purposes other than the preservation of works and other subject matter in their permanent collections should remain subject to the authorisation of rightholders, unless permitted by other exceptions or limitations provided for in Union law.


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• (28) Cultural heritage institutions do not necessarily have the technical means or expertise to undertake the acts required to preserve their collections themselves, particularly in the digital environment, and might, therefore, have recourse to the assistance of other cultural institutions and other third parties for that purpose.

    Under the exception for preservation purposes provided for by this Directive, cultural_heritage_institutions should be allowed to rely on third parties acting on their behalf and under their responsibility, including those that are based in other Member States, for the making of copies.


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• (30) Cultural heritage institutions should benefit from a clear framework for the digitisation and dissemination, including across borders, of works or other subject matter that are considered to be out of commerce for the purposes of this Directive.

    However, the particular characteristics of the collections of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter, together with the amount of works and other subject matter involved in mass digitisation projects, mean that obtaining the prior authorisation of the individual rightholders can be very difficult.

    This can be due, for example, to the age of the works or other subject matter, their limited commercial value or the fact that they were never intended for commercial use or that they have never been exploited commercially.

    It is therefore necessary to provide for measures to facilitate certain uses of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter that are permanently in the collections of cultural_heritage_institutions.


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• (31) All Member States should have legal mechanisms in place allowing licences issued by relevant and sufficiently representative collective management organisations to cultural_heritage_institutions, for certain uses of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter, to also apply to the rights of rightholders that have not mandated a representative collective management organisation in that regard.

    It should be possible, pursuant to this Directive, for such licences to cover all Member States.


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• (32) The provisions on collective licensing of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter introduced by this Directive might not provide a solution for all cases in which cultural_heritage_institutions encounter difficulties in obtaining all the necessary authorisations from rightholders for the use of such out-of-commerce works or other subject matter.

    That could be the case for example, where there is no practice of collective management of rights for a certain type of work or other subject matter or where the relevant collective management organisation is not sufficiently representative for the category of the rightholders and of the rights concerned.

    In such particular instances, it should be possible for cultural_heritage_institutions to make out-of-commerce works or other subject matter that are permanently in their collection available online in all Member States under a harmonised exception or limitation to copyright and related rights. It is important that uses under such exception or limitation only take place when certain conditions, in particular as regards the availability of licensing solutions, are fulfilled.

    A lack of agreement on the conditions of the licence should not be interpreted as a lack of availability of licensing solutions.


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• (33) Member States should, within the framework provided for in this Directive, have flexibility in choosing the specific type of licensing mechanism, such as extended collective licensing or presumptions of representation, that they put in place for the use of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter by cultural_heritage_institutions, in accordance with their legal traditions, practices or circumstances. Member States should also have flexibility in determining what the requirements for collective management organisations to be sufficiently representative are, as long as that determination is based on a significant number of rightholders in the relevant type of works or other subject matter having given a mandate allowing the licensing of the relevant type of use.

    Member States should be free to establish specific rules applicable to cases in which more than one collective management organisation is representative for the relevant works or other subject matter, requiring for example joint licences or an agreement between the relevant organisations.


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• (35) Appropriate safeguards should be available for all rightholders, who should be given the opportunity of excluding the application of the licensing mechanisms and of the exception or limitation, introduced by this Directive for the use of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter, in relation to all their works or other subject matter, in relation to all licences or all uses under the exception or limitation, in relation to particular works or other subject matter, or in relation to particular licences or uses under the exception or limitation, at any time before or during the term of the licence or before or during the use under the exception or limitation.

    Conditions governing those licensing mechanisms should not affect their practical relevance for cultural_heritage_institutions. It is important that, where a rightholder excludes the application of such mechanisms or of such exception or limitation to one or more works or other subject matter, any ongoing uses are terminated within a reasonable period, and, where they take place under a collective licence, that the collective management organisation once informed ceases to issue licences covering the uses concerned.

    Such exclusion by rightholders should not affect their claims to remuneration for the actual use of the work or other subject matter under the licence.


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• (37) Considering the variety of works and other subject matter in the collections of cultural_heritage_institutions, it is important that the licensing mechanisms and the exception or limitation provided for by this Directive are available and can be used in practice for different types of works and other subject matter, including photographs, software, phonograms, audiovisual works and unique works of art, including where they have never been commercially available.

    Never-in-commerce works can include posters, leaflets, trench journals or amateur audiovisual works, but also unpublished works or other subject matter, without prejudice to other applicable legal constraints, such as national rules on moral rights. When a work or other subject matter is available in any of its different versions, such as subsequent editions of literary works and alternate cuts of cinematographic works, or in any of its different manifestations, such as digital and printed formats of the same work, that work or other subject matter should not be considered out of commerce.

    Conversely, the commercial availability of adaptations, including other language versions or audiovisual adaptations of a literary work, should not preclude a work or other subject matter from being deemed to be out of commerce in a given language.

    In order to reflect the specificities of different types of works and other subject matter as regards modes of publication and distribution, and to facilitate the usability of those mechanisms, specific requirements and procedures might have to be established for the practical application of those licensing mechanisms, such as a requirement for a certain time period to have elapsed since the work or other subject matter was first commercially available.

    It is appropriate that Member States consult rightholders, cultural_heritage_institutions and collective management organisations when establishing such requirements and procedures.


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• (40) Contracting cultural_heritage_institutions and collective management organisations should remain free to agree on the territorial scope of licences, including the option of covering all Member States, the licence fee and the uses allowed.

    Uses covered by such licences should not be for profit-making purposes, including where copies are distributed by the cultural_heritage_institution, such as in the case of promotional material about an exhibition.

    At the same time, given that the digitisation of the collections of cultural_heritage_institutions can entail significant investments, any licences granted under the mechanism provided for in this Directive should not prevent cultural_heritage_institutions from covering the costs of the licence and the costs of digitising and disseminating the works or other subject matter covered by the licence.


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• (41) Information regarding the ongoing and future use of out-of-commerce works and other subject matter by cultural_heritage_institutions on the basis of this Directive and the arrangements in place for all rightholders to exclude the application of licences or of the exception or limitation to their works or other subject matter should be adequately publicised both before and during the use under a licence or under the exception or limitation, as appropriate.

    Such publicising is particularly important when uses take place across borders in the internal market.

    It is therefore appropriate to provide for the creation of a single publicly accessible online portal for the Union in order to make such information available to the public for a reasonable period of time before the use takes place.

    Such portal should make it easier for rightholders to exclude the application of licences or of the exception or limitation to their works or other subject matter.

    Under Regulation (EU) No 386/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (11), the European Union Intellectual Property Office is entrusted with certain tasks and activities, financed by making use of its own budgetary means and aimed at facilitating and supporting the activities of national authorities, the private sector and Union institutions in the fight against, including the prevention of, infringement of intellectual property rights. It is therefore appropriate to rely on that Office to establish and manage the portal making such information available.


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• (43) The measures provided for in this Directive to facilitate the collective licensing of rights in out-of-commerce works or other subject matter that are permanently in the collections of cultural_heritage_institutions should be without prejudice to the use of such works or other subject matter under exceptions or limitations provided for in Union law, or under other licences with an extended effect, where such licensing is not based on the out-of-commerce status of the covered works or other subject matter.

    Those measures should also be without prejudice to national mechanisms for the use of out-of-commerce works or other subject matter based on licences between collective management organisations and users other than cultural_heritage_institutions.


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• (53) The expiry of the term of protection of a work entails the entry of that work into the public domain and the expiry of the rights that Union copyright law provides in relation to that work.

    In the field of visual arts, the circulation of faithful reproductions of works in the public domain contributes to the access to and promotion of culture, and the access to cultural heritage.

    In the digital environment, the protection of such reproductions through copyright or related rights is inconsistent with the expiry of the copyright protection of works. In addition, differences between the national copyright laws governing the protection of such reproductions give rise to legal uncertainty and affect the cross-border dissemination of works of visual arts in the public domain.

    Certain reproductions of works of visual arts in the public domain should, therefore, not be protected by copyright or related rights. All of that should not prevent cultural_heritage_institutions from selling reproductions, such as postcards.


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