And here are the roll call votes so we can see the names of those who voted for and against on Article 13, FoP and on the final vote.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f% 2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bPV%2b20180912%2bRES-RCV%2bDOC% 2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN 2018-09-12 13:09 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < [email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Unfortunately the result was no good. > > Articles 11 (neighbouring right for press publications) and 13 (platform > liability) were carried in full as per EPP proposals. > > The Freedom of Panorama and User-Generated Content exceptions didn't make > it. > > The final mandate was adopted 438 votes in favor, 226 against and 39 > abstentions. > > The Parliament will now start the negotiations with the Council (trilogue) > based on this mandate. There we can work on "safeguarding the public > domain" and keeping the carve-out for non-for-profit platforms like ours > (which is both in the Parliament and in the Council position). > > There will be a final vote in the parliament plenary after the trilogue on > the the adoption of the final trilogue result. We cannot currently predict > a timeline for when this final plenary vote will be, but this will take > months. > > Thank you everyone for the efforts, help and support. Despite the bad news > you were great and against terrible odds we got the small improvements on > public domain and carve-outs that wouldn't have happened without all of > you. We need to remember that these are not our decisions to take in the > end and the best we can do is inform and convince, which we did as best as > we could. > > Anna & Dimi > > >
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