Sylvie was on 11 October in Brussels.
The meetings were very positive. Sylvie thinks that if CEPIC pursues this path of cooperation, there is a realistic chance to have provisions on framing and on image search engines introduced in the Copyright in the DSM Directive!
In the morning, Sylvie met Helga Trüpel (Green party). She is supportive of CEPIC's position (attached) and will try to help us by contacting the German MEPs in JURI and sending them our proposition. She said that she is in favour that authors get better revenue online. As a member of the Green Party, her compromise will be to get the support of her party for fixing the revenue gap against not supporting the "filtering obligation" of Art.13. (There are no "filtering obligations", this is propaganda, but she did not want to argue with her on that point!)
In the afternoon, Sylvie met Carola Streul and Savvina Papadaki in EVA's offices. We agreed to work out a common position on collective licensing and image search engines in order to exclude mandatory collective licensing. She explained to her the rationale of the CEPIC amendments, which she technically did not understand (not from the legal point of view but the technical process behind ...). EVA are proposing an "opt-out" .
If we CEPIC and EVA able to work out compromise amendments CEPIC/ EVA on image search engines, chances that they are adopted in JURI are realistic.
Attached are the various propositions around Framing and Image Search Engines.
Another important meeting was with the European Federation of Journalists: Pamela Molinière, legal counsel and Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, president.
They have been working on article 11 (neighbouring right) but have left aside Art. 13 (Value Gap) due to limited resources. They agreed to support CEPIC's propositions in JURI when it comes to making voting recommendations to MEPs before the vote. This is of course very good news. Mogen wrote after the meeting:
"Thank you very much for the yesterday meeting at EFJ's office regarding the EU copyright directive. It was very informative indeed, and we certainly share your concerns regarding framing. We have many member, for whom it matters."
(Based on internal emails)