Does EU hate libraries?

The EU is on track to criminalize linking online and transient storage of copyright material in computer writes four pirate party gains.

" Why do you hate the EU library?" Tweeted international library Federation EllenBroad after UN meeting # SCCR27 copyright last week.

The crass answer is that governments like the Swedish undisturbed and unchallenged gives EU officials that assignment. Not even the United States is as sönderlobbade EU copyright industry , and the U.S. has its own library expert in its delegation for the negotiations.

It involves libraries opportunities to digitize , be on the internet , and archiving culture. Today, those rights are very limited .

But if the right situation is unclear and bad for libraries in Sweden and Luxembourg , it will be the worse in eastern EU Member States. There they have given all power to the copyright industry , no power to the culture of users.

The only thing that saves these systems from a cultural collapse is that they rarely follow their own laws, as confidence in the rule of law is very low.

On twitter also wondered Disability Federation and Visually Impaired riksförening when we really should get better support in the law to adapt cultural works into formats accessible to visually impaired and disabled people can benefit from. The Government of Sweden has decided to sign an international agreement to visually impaired is also entitled to literature, but they would not ratify . It means that the government supports the agreement in thought but not in deed.

Some officials in Brussels have now begun to look more actively at the breadth and depth of problems copyrights creates , but the copyright industry is watching carefully . It has begun to rattle the skeletons in the breakfast meetings and lunch gatherings. The flowery rhetoric attracts politicians and the media . This means that even the officials are trying to solve real problems for IT companies , libraries , vision impaired, DJ's , tavern owners, and not least of Internet users in the EU is opposed by politicians who unwittingly trudging patrolled by lobbyists.

You can not wave aside any copyright problems by referring to that someone has to get paid. The EU is on track to criminalize linking online and transient storage of copyright material in computer when eg visiting a website ( caching in the browser , but there are many other types of caching that might be illegal too).

There will be many reasons impractical. In practice forbids the internet and personal computers. Everything is illegal and punishable that is not explicitly allowed .

We in the Pirate Party like the internet. We like creativity , innovation and development is good, and that the law must allow for such activities. We want to protect the growing number of Swedes affected by threatening letters and retaliation lawsuits from Rights Alliance each year. We like libraries, we think visually impaired to have read, and want the law to go to follow. The values ​​we want to defend in the EU over the next five years , and that voters may be happy to consider supporting us with this work.

Amelia Andersdaughter , Member of European Parliament for the Pirate Party

Marten Fjällström , candidate for county council for the Pirate Party

Mikael Holm, General Secretary of the Young Pirate

Karolina Andersdaughter , library student and Uppsala Pirate