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There goes my last post on the hill of January, on Friday, completed the ritual of taking a hot bath with classical music background. I hear it on an audio cd's I have of adolescence, and has been moving through successive baths of my home since then. The discs also have been hoarding over the years. You see I'm from a generation outmoded. Now the fashion is to download everything. Just this week approved a law to regulate popular downloads in Spain, although this debate extends to the entire European Union, with which we share market, where the Commission has announced today new features. Brussels is considered the creative sector as a competitive bracket, which the Europeans can make a difference, although this framework for action must be common to both authors, and those who own the rights to their creations, and also for the broadcast.

is an old debate, because in 2005 the Commission issued a warning to authors' societies not to compete between them, because musicians were paid royalties only to the agency in your country and ceded to external collection agencies in each Member State. This resulted in an unfairness to those lower-level musicians, who do not sell their products abroad, and ultimately fail anyone to buy their licenses. Primarily by legal and bureaucratic complexity of multiplying the licenses for each state. Instead, there are people who think that European unification agency copyright management that small groups will disappear and the music definitely is imposed mainstream.

The EU will regulate this matter in 2011, but has not yet decided whether to take the form of directive, which imposed on all Member States equally standard, without being altered by national parliaments. The European Commission decided some time to regulate the societies that collect royalties for musicians, such as the famous and feared SGAE in Spain. There is currently a legal vacuum on how to operate and manage the data these companies collect and manage copyrights and trying to restrict the leeway that has prevailed so far, with clearly abusive behavior. It's an old-do within the European strategy to harmonize patents, trademarks, protection of rights, discharge control ... this Wednesday met the actors involved ( stakeholders in our jargon) with Jorn, who takes these issues on Barnier's cabinet , Internal Market Commissioner, who has taken the lead in this battle, which on paper would fall within the scope of the Dutch Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda ... either way, Jorna has taken it to heart and has not ceased to meet with organizations in the world of intellectual property since last summer.

Indeed, some (the usual) fear that after this could hide a draconian system of close monitoring of the copyright. If you put the magnifying glass, can be said that the proposal from the Commission is very much in tune with the famous law Sinde, that affects the monitoring of Internet activity and violations. The Commission has a clear position, while the European Parliament has also expressed this January, but only to request that the Directive does not infringe on basic individual rights. Indeed, some MEPs from the socialist and liberal groups have come to say that there is "the risk of the Commission to impose a regime Hadopi type throughout the Union." In fact, Hadopi is a French law of 2009 which became so famous as the Sinde, to create an agency that controlled the activity and movement of files on the Internet, to cut off access to the Internet to users who have violated the law three times. That law was amended so that only a judge in France can now cut off access to the Internet, and Spain. The funny thing is that Hadopi now is in limbo, since it is precisely in the next few weeks the French Council of State must determine its validity, and make it according to what the European Parliament to vote on this law. Indeed, a good example of the relevance of decisions taken in Parliament.

In the same area, and very much in line with the concept pan-European licensing defends Kroes, an idea that the Commission is particularly welcome is the creation of a meeting (for music and the like) where users can purchase licenses content for any (or all) member states of Twenty-seven. Be seen whether Parliament will set aside his belligerence in relation to individual rights or go beyond rule-in a somewhat ambiguous in the sense of demanding respect and protection of cultural diversity.

There are many more actors involved in this debate. From the outset, the Court of Justice, which examines whether the filtering of Web content is in According to European law regarding copyright and the ACTA agreement, a multilateral trade agreement signed in Geneva in 2008 that defines international standards on intellectual property rights. ACTA raises concern among telecommunications companies and Internet providers, because they believe in their regulation is exceeded, even surpassing the acquis communautaire, and ensure that affected the competitiveness of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world.

However, despite the lobbies, hallways say MEPs in the great battle is going to fight the European Commission, which no doubt, having involved the warlike Kroes Case, who has always been opposed to the fragmentation of the system of royalties, "because it has come to give more power and relevance to intermediaries that the artists themselves." Touché . Okay. I'm with Kroes in this battle.