keyboard_tab Diritto d'autore 2019/0790 EN
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- 1 Article 2 Definitions
- 1 Article 12 Collective licensing with an extended effect
- 1 Article 19 Transparency obligation
- 1 Article 20 Contract adjustment mechanism
TITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE II
MEASURES TO ADAPT EXCEPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS TO THE DIGITAL AND CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENT
TITLE III
MEASURES TO IMPROVE LICENSING PRACTICES AND ENSURE WIDER ACCESS TO CONTENT
CHAPTER 1
Out-of-commerce works and other subject matter
CHAPTER 2
Measures to facilitate collective licensing
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 24
- shall 18
- subject 14
- licensing 14
- rightholders 13
- information 13
- directive 13
- such 12
- works 12
- paragraph 11
- from 10
- collective 10
- states 10
- organisation 9
- purposes 8
- mechanism 8
- member 8
- about 7
- scientific 7
- matter 7
- member 7
- rights 7
- means 7
- which 7
- exploitation 6
- accordance 6
- apply 6
- obligation 6
- provide 6
- including 6
- national 6
- agreement 5
- referred 5
- have 5
- within 5
- under 5
- rules 5
- ensure 5
- state 5
- management 5
- services 5
- relevant 5
- basis 5
- licence 5
- agreements 4
- //eu 4
- title 4
- authors 4
- performers 4
- contractual 4
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:
(1) | ‘ research_organisation’ means a university, including its libraries, a research institute or any other entity, the primary goal of which is to conduct scientific research or to carry out educational activities involving also the conduct of scientific research:
in such a way that the access to the results generated by such scientific research cannot be enjoyed on a preferential basis by an undertaking that exercises a decisive influence upon such organisation; |
(2) | ‘ text_and_data_mining’ means any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form in order to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations; |
(3) | ‘ cultural_heritage_institution’ means a publicly accessible library or museum, an archive or a film or audio heritage institution; |
(4) | ‘ press_publication’ means a collection composed mainly of literary works of a journalistic nature, but which can also include other works or other subject matter, and which:
Periodicals that are published for scientific or academic purposes, such as scientific journals, are not press_publications for the purposes of this Directive; |
(5) | ‘ information_society_service’ means a service within the meaning of point (b) of Article 1(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535; |
(6) | ‘ online_content-sharing_service_provider’ means a provider of an information_society_service of which the main or one of the main purposes is to store and give the public access to a large amount of copyright-protected works or other protected subject matter uploaded by its users, which it organises and promotes for profit-making purposes. Providers of services, such as not-for-profit online encyclopedias, not-for-profit educational and scientific repositories, open source software-developing and-sharing platforms, providers of electronic communications services as defined in Directive (EU) 2018/1972, online marketplaces, business-to-business cloud services and cloud services that allow users to upload content for their own use, are not ‘ online_content-sharing_service_providers’ within the meaning of this Directive. |
TITLE II
MEASURES TO ADAPT EXCEPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS TO THE DIGITAL AND CROSS-BORDER ENVIRONMENT
Article 12
Collective licensing with an extended effect
1. Member States may provide, as far as the use on their territory is concerned and subject to the safeguards provided for in this Article, that where a collective management organisation that is subject to the national rules implementing Directive 2014/26/EU, in accordance with its mandates from rightholders, enters into a licensing agreement for the exploitation of works or other subject matter:
(a) | such an agreement can be extended to apply to the rights of rightholders who have not authorised that collective management organisation to represent them by way of assignment, licence or any other contractual arrangement; or |
(b) | with respect to such an agreement, the organisation has a legal mandate or is presumed to represent rightholders who have not authorised the organisation accordingly. |
2. Member States shall ensure that the licensing mechanism referred to in paragraph 1 is only applied within well-defined areas of use, where obtaining authorisations from rightholders on an individual basis is typically onerous and impractical to a degree that makes the required licensing transaction unlikely, due to the nature of the use or of the types of works or other subject matter concerned, and shall ensure that such licensing mechanism safeguards the legitimate interests of rightholders.
3. For the purposes of paragraph 1, Member States shall provide for the following safeguards:
(a) | the collective management organisation is, on the basis of its mandates, sufficiently representative of rightholders in the relevant type of works or other subject matter and of the rights which are the subject of the licence, for the relevant Member State; |
(b) | all rightholders are guaranteed equal treatment, including in relation to the terms of the licence; |
(c) | rightholders who have not authorised the organisation granting the licence may at any time easily and effectively exclude their works or other subject matter from the licensing mechanism established in accordance with this Article; and |
(d) | appropriate publicity measures are taken, starting from a reasonable period before the works or other subject matter are used under the licence, to inform rightholders about the ability of the collective management organisation to license works or other subject matter, about the licensing taking place in accordance with this Article and about the options available to rightholders as referred to in point (c). Publicity measures shall be effective without the need to inform each rightholder individually. |
4. This Article does not affect the application of collective licensing mechanisms with an extended effect in accordance with other provisions of Union law, including provisions that allow exceptions or limitations.
This Article shall not apply to mandatory collective management of rights.
Article 7 of Directive 2014/26/EU shall apply to the licensing mechanism provided for in this Article.
5. Where a Member State provides in its national law for a licensing mechanism in accordance with this Article, that Member State shall inform the Commission about the scope of the corresponding national provisions, about the purposes and types of licences that may be introduced under those provisions, about the contact details of organisations issuing licences in accordance with that licensing mechanism, and about the means by which information on the licensing and on the options available to rightholders as referred to in point (c) of paragraph 3 can be obtained. The Commission shall publish that information.
6. Based on the information received pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Article and on the discussions within the contact committee established in Article 12(3) of Directive 2001/29/EC, the Commission shall, by 10 April 2021, submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a report on the use in the Union of the licensing mechanisms referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, their impact on licensing and rightholders, including rightholders who are not members of the organisation granting the licences or who are nationals of, or resident in, another Member State, their effectiveness in facilitating the dissemination of cultural content, and their impact on the internal market, including the cross-border provision of services and competition. That report shall be accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal, including as regards the cross-border effect of such national mechanisms.
CHAPTER 3
Access to and availability of audiovisual works on video-on-demand platforms
Article 19
Transparency obligation
1. Member States shall ensure that authors and performers receive on a regular basis, at least once a year, and taking into account the specificities of each sector, up to date, relevant and comprehensive information on the exploitation of their works and performances from the parties to whom they have licensed or transferred their rights, or their successors in title, in particular as regards modes of exploitation, all revenues generated and remuneration due.
2. Member States shall ensure that, where the rights referred to in paragraph 1 have subsequently been licensed, authors and performers or their representatives shall, at their request, receive from sub-licensees additional information, in the event that their first contractual counterpart does not hold all the information that would be necessary for the purposes of paragraph 1.
Where that additional information is requested, the first contractual counterpart of authors and performers shall provide information on the identity of those sub-licensees.
Member States may provide that any request to sub-licensees pursuant to the first subparagraph is made directly or indirectly through the contractual counterpart of the author or the performer.
3. The obligation set out in paragraph 1 shall be proportionate and effective in ensuring a high level of transparency in every sector. Member States may provide that in duly justified cases where the administrative burden resulting from the obligation set out in paragraph 1 would become disproportionate in the light of the revenues generated by the exploitation of the work or performance, the obligation is limited to the types and level of information that can reasonably be expected in such cases.
4. Member States may decide that the obligation set out in paragraph 1 of this Article does not apply when the contribution of the author or performer is not significant having regard to the overall work or performance, unless the author or performer demonstrates that he or she requires the information for the exercise of his or her rights under Article 20(1) and requests the information for that purpose.
5. Member States may provide that, for agreements subject to or based on collective bargaining agreements, the transparency rules of the relevant collective bargaining agreement are applicable, on condition that those rules meet the criteria provided for in paragraphs 1 to 4.
6. Where Article 18 of Directive 2014/26/EU is applicable, the obligation laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply in respect of agreements concluded by entities defined in Article 3(a) and (b) of that Directive or by other entities subject to the national rules implementing that Directive.
Article 20
Contract adjustment mechanism
1. Member States shall ensure that, in the absence of an applicable collective bargaining agreement providing for a mechanism comparable to that set out in this Article, authors and performers or their representatives are entitled to claim additional, appropriate and fair remuneration from the party with whom they entered into a contract for the exploitation of their rights, or from the successors in title of such party, when the remuneration originally agreed turns out to be disproportionately low compared to all the subsequent relevant revenues derived from the exploitation of the works or performances.
2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply to agreements concluded by entities defined in Article 3(a) and (b) of Directive 2014/26/EU or by other entities that are already subject to the national rules implementing that Directive.
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