Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The 'law Sinde' resurrected in the Senate today to vote PP

The parliamentary process of the controversial law Sinde crown an important milestone: their passage through the Senate, where it will be endorsed this week by a majority of parliamentary groups, including the PSOE, the PP and CiU. The rule to curb Internet for unauthorized downloads of content protected by copyright will return, said yesterday 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 have introduced amendments to ensure judicial involvement throughout the process of closing down a web.

Sinde law is contained in the articles of the Law of Sustainable Economy (LES). In the debate this morning in the Upper House (the final vote takes place this afternoon) PP senator, José María Chiquillo, said that substantial changes have been all through his political education. In particular, Chiquillo has highlighted the fact that the Government gives an undertaking that, within three months after the entry into force of the standard, called harmonize the implementation of digital canon (the rate levied on any device priori or media 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 has emphasized the work of the PP for the introduction of a "double guarantee" the courts in the process of closing a site and added that Gonzalez-Sinde was not at all clear.

" "This is not a blank check to the government," apostille Boy. By the PSOE has intervened Felix Lavilla, who has defended the fact that in 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 has highlighted the fact that the standard will receive broad parliamentary consensus. Two dissenting voices have been heard in the Senate: the interventions of the authors of two dissenting votes 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 been content to anyone, or the Internet or the creators, but also to small producers. Therefore calls for the withdrawal of the amendment agreed by PP, PSOE and CiU. Perez Bouza, meanwhile, has called the law "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, said yesterday the minister was quoted by Efe.

The Minister of Culture pointed out that, once approved the bill in Congress, "will need 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 suspended in these sites.

In recent days have stepped up a campaign to send emails to senators organized by RedSOStenible to pressure political representatives "who will not vote to allow the passage of the Act Sinde. Remember the senators - who are elected by open list or directly by citizens and - not those who will vote on Wednesday, 9 in the Senate vote in favor of 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 current wording is pursuing the unauthorized content (and calls for its withdrawal) but not illegal behavior.

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