Traduction de «Créateur de parties » (Français → Anglais) :

19. Underlines the importance of contractual freedom for all rightholders, who should be able to freely exercise their rights; considers it necessary to develop a legal framework that will be evidence-based, taking into account the experience of all relevant stakeholders, while also strengthening the negotiating and contractual position of all creators in relation to other rightholders and intermediaries;

2. Stresses the need to adapt the copyright legislative framework in order to ensure appropriate remuneration and adequate protection for holders of copyright and related rights in view of new consumer demands and the challenges posed by the digital economy and society; stresses also that the modernised copyright rules should safeguard a fair balance between all interested parties: consumers, users, creators and right holders;

9. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to further developing the EU digital agenda, including the objective of modernising copyright rules; acknowledges the need to review Directive 2001/29/EC in order to ensure appropriate remuneration for authors, performers, and other copyright holders and appropriate protection of these rights, as well as a fair balance in the European cultural economy between all parties involved (SMEs, consumers, users, creators and rightholders) in a digital era which implies a changing and constantly evolving technological environment and brings about changes in user behaviour, along with opportunities and chal ...[+++]lenges; considers that such a review should provide the necessary legal clarity, stability and certainty, as well as the flexibility needed to foster investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector whilst removing legal uncertainties and inconsistencies which adversely affect the functioning of the digital single market; also asks for a strong engagement on the principle of reopening, as soon as possible in the interests of consistency, Directive 2000/31/EC on electronic commerce; believes that one of the main aims of this review should be copyright modernisation with the aim of facilitating cross-border access to services and content while preserving a high level of protection of intellectual property rights and serving development and cultural diversity;

I would, however, like to draw the government's attention to the amendments presented by the Bloc, and to point out that it would be important to support the amendments we are presenting at the report stage, simply because they concern the interests of authors and creators, not the political interests of one party, but the interests of authors and creators.

Finally, the government has not lived up to the expectations it had instilled in creative artists and an important part of the tools it could use to defend culture and creators is now in the hands of the Department of Industry.

There is no doubt that Bill C-11 contains positive measures for a part of the Canadian creative sector but not for the majority of Canadian artists and creators I represent.