The European Parliament (EP) is discussing the European Commission (EC) proposal for a new European directive on copyright, that will endanger education and scientific research, freedom of expression and freedom of information.

The Members of European Parliament (MEP) submitted amendments to the EC’s proposal that are now being discussed and voted in EP’s committees according with the following timetable, taken from Julia Reda’s Website:

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments that widen the scope of the TDM exception. Everyone that has legal access to texts and data should be allowed to mine those texts and data. The right to read is the right to mine. EC wants to allow only research centres to do TDM, and only for non commercial purposes, prohibiting startups, public entities, cultural heritage institutions, journalists and citizens to do it;

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments related with technological measures. Technological measures (DRM) kill your right to exercise copyright exceptions in education, scientific research, cultural heritage, etc. We need to change this and now there’s an opportunity: if those amendments are approved, technological measures will never stop citizens from exercising the exceptions again in Europe. The best part is those amendments do not change the rightholder’s rights, they will have exactly the same rights, they can still use technological measures (DRM) in their works and DRM will still be protected by law;

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments that extend the copyright exception for education and reject a licensing system and levies, that educational entities cannot afford;

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments that reject article 11º (publishers’ rights). EC wants to create a new 20 years related right to be given to news’ publishers, endangering the sharing of links with snippets or a title to a new’s article. A similar law didn’t work in Germany and was disastrous in Spain. It is also an abject limitation on freedom of expression and access to information and independent academics unanimously oppose to extra copyright for news sites;

• to supportand vote favourably on those amendments that reject article 13º (upload filters). If EC’s proposal is approved, Internet platforms hosting user-uploaded content must monitor those uploads. This will apply to large platforms, like YouTube, but also to other platforms like Universities’ scientific research repositories. The Court of Justice of the European Union already ruled that mandatory filtering was not acceptable and an independent study shows this article is incompatible with European law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Also, this monitoring would be done through automatic filters that are blind to copyright exceptions.

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments that create a new exception for user generated content;

• to support and vote favourably on those amendments that harmonise the panorama exception.

Last Friday, the European People’s Party (EPP), the party with more MEPs (and votes) in the European Parliament, adopted a position on EC proposal that, if approved, will take Europe to the dark ages.

We all need to contact our representative MEPs!

The contacts of MEPs can be found in the EP’s page. The most important vote is JURI Committee vote, so if you don’t have time to contact all your representatives, you should prioritise JURI’s. Check your country below to see how to contact your representatives:

If you are from Czech Republic, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Pavel SVOBODA

Email: pavel.svoboda [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45303

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA

Email: jiri.mastalka [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45905

If you are from Poland, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Lidia Joanna GERINGER de OEDENBERG

Email: lidiajoanna.geringerdeoedenberg [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45809

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA

Email: tadeusz.zwiefka [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45258

Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI

Email: kosma.zlotowski [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45775

Stanisław ŻÓŁTEK

Email: stanislawjozef.zoltek [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: ++32(0)2 28 45603

If you are from France, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Jean-Marie CAVADA

Email: jean-marie.cavada [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45367

Joëlle BERGERON

Email: joelle.bergeron [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45295

Marie-Christine BOUTONNET

Email: marie-christine.boutonnet [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45602

Gilles LEBRETON

Email: gilles.lebreton [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45817

Pascal DURAND

Email: pascal.durand [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45161

Constance LE GRIP

Email: constance.legrip [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45120

Virginie ROZIÈRE

Email: virginie.roziere [at] europarl [dot] europa [dot] eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45408

If you are from Italy, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Laura FERRARA

Email: laura.ferrara [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45410

Enrico GASBARRA

Email: enrico.gasbarra [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45410

Isabella ADINOLFI

Email: isabella.adinolfi [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45714

Mario BORGHEZIO

Email: mario.borghezio [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45704

Sergio Gaetano COFFERATI

Email: sergio.cofferati [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45513

Stefano MAULLU

Email: stefano.maullu [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45219

If you are from Luxembourg, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Mady DELVAUX

Email: smady.delvaux-stehres [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45136

If you are from Sweden, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Max ANDERSSON

Email: max.andersson [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45457

Jytte GUTELAND

Email: jytte.guteland [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45694

If you are from Greece, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Email: kostas.chrysogonos [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45405

If you are from Ireland, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Brian CROWLEY

Email: briancrowleymep [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45751

If you are from Spain, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT

Email: rosa.estaras [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45163

Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL

Email: luis.degrandespascual [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45512

If you are from United Kingdom, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Mary HONEYBALL

Email: mary.honeyball [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45209

Sajjad KARIM

Email: sajjad.karim [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45640

Jane COLLINS

Email: jane.collins [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45104

If you are from Germany, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN

Email: sylvia-yvonne.kaufmann [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45788

Julia REDA

Email: julia.reda [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45732

Axel VOSS

Email: axel.voss [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45302

Evelyne GEBHARDT

Email: evelyne.gebhardt [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45466

Angelika NIEBLER

Email: angelika.niebler [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32 (0) 2 28 45390

Rainer WIELAND

Email: rainer.wieland [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 47545

Tiemo WÖLKEN

Email: tiemo.woelken [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45431

If you are from Portugal, you should contact (change [at] for @):

António MARINHO E PINTO

Email: antonio.marinhoepinto [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45403

If you are from Bulgaria, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Emil RADEV

Email: aemil.radev [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45189

Angel DZHAMBAZKI

Email: aangel.dzhambazki [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45697

If you are from Austria, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Evelyn REGNER

Email: evelyn.regner [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45476

If you are from Hungary, you should contact (change [at] for @):

József SZÁJER

Email: jozsef.szajer [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45871

If you are from Romania, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Daniel BUDA

Email: daniel.buda [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45110

If you are from Lithuania, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Antanas GUOGA

Email: antanas.guoga [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45522

Viktor USPASKICH

Email: viktor.uspaskich [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45339

If you are from Finland, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Heidi HAUTALA

Email: heidi.hautala [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45518

If you are from Denmark, you should contact (change [at] for @):

Jens ROHDE

Email: jens.rohde [at] europarl.europa.eu

Brussels Office Phone: +32(0)2 28 45569