Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The 'law Sinde' resurrected in the Senate by a vote of PP

The parliamentary process of the controversial law Sinde crown an important milestone: their passage through the Senate, where he was this afternoon approved by a majority of parliamentary groups, including the PSOE, the PP and CiU. Sinde law has surged ahead with 244 votes in favor and 12 against. The rule to curb Internet for unauthorized downloads of content protected by copyright return, he declared on Tuesday the Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, in four weeks the Congress of Deputies (where he was lying in December) but now it will changed after the agreement between the aforementioned groups, which have been amended to ensure that judicial intervention during the process of closing down a web.

Sinde law is contained in the articles of the Law of Sustainable Economy (LES). In the morning debate in the Senate Senator PP, José María Chiquillo, noted that substantial changes must be all to his political education. In particular, Chiquillo stressed that the Government commit to, within three months after the entry into force of the standard, called harmonize the implementation of digital canon (the duty to which a priori any apparatus or support capable of reproducing or copying a file) to the recent Court of Luxembourg.

For PP this alignment is only "a short transit to rush into the suspension of the fee for being abusive and illegal." The popular senator stressed the work of the PP for the introduction of a "double guarantee" the courts in the process of closing a site and added that [the minister], "Gonzalez-Sinde was not at all clear." "This is not a blank check to the government," he added Boy.

PSOE: more rights for the PSOE intervened Felix Lavilla, who defended the fact that the amended text has increased the legal safeguards for those who surf the Net "The model may not be perfect but is a step ahead of the rights "of the Internet. Lavilla said that the standard will receive broad parliamentary consensus.

Two dissenting voices were heard in the Senate: the interventions of the authors of two individual opinions against the norm. One member of the Partido Socialista de Mallorca (PSM), Pere Sampol, and one of José Manuel Pérez Bouza (BNG). Sampol justified his vote by saying that the law Sinde not content to anyone, or the Internet or the creators, but also to small producers.

Therefore called for the withdrawal of the amendment agreed by PP, PSOE and CiU. Perez Bouza, meanwhile, called the law of "patch" and added: "We have lost an opportunity of a great deal about intellectual property and protection of creators." In summer, "the law when Congress will approve it, perhaps in mid-March, and maybe for the summer we can start implementing the first cases," he said on Tuesday the Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, was quoted by Efe.

The Minister of Culture pointed out that once a law passed in Congress "have to develop the rules and form the second section of the Intellectual Property Commission, the body under the ministry responsible for examining complaints about the contents posted on these web pages. In recent days have stepped up a campaign to send emails to senators organized by RedSOStenible to lobby political representatives "who will not vote to allow the passage of the Act Sinde.

We remember the senators who are elected by open list or directly by citizen-and that those who vote on Wednesday, 9 in the Senate vote for Sinde Act and the rights of citizens, artists and entrepreneurs in the digital age ", say these Internet. Cultural industry, by the mouth of the Coalition of Creators (the pressure group which brings together producers, publishers and record labels) is also not entirely happy with the wording.

Their main complaint is that the statute seeks to unauthorized content (and calls for its withdrawal) but not illegal behavior.

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