State secretary Teeven of Security and Justice wants the downloadverbod to enter, although a majority of the Second Room there is. Teeven hopes by adjustment of the parties so far as to get a downloadverbod support.
Teeven said in the commissiedebat about auteursrechtenwetgeving in the Netherlands, the parties that are against, to meet, to come up with adjustments in the downloadverbod. “I want to reach out to those parties, because otherwise it would be the us fails to enact legislation. That we do not want to.” Teeven does not say what adjustments need to be done.
During the General Consultation, said many parties are against a downloadverbod. Many politicians seem to be particularly afraid that the downloadverbod is used for consumers to sue for downloading music and movies from the ‘obvious illegal source’. Teeven stressed that he was not a kind of ‘internetpolitie’ aims and, just as the parties want to avoid that individual downloaders are dealt with. “It is my job to prevent that films such as Nova Zembla, five days after the theatrical release in the massively downloaded. Anyone can understand that downloading such a film so soon after the release is not a pure tea,” said Teeven. Concrete measures are mentioned, however, he is not.
Teeven does not believe that the parties first legal offer have to create. “It is a chicken-and-egg question. As long as there are free can be downloaded, there are less incentives to make that legal offer.” Teeven will, however, see a growth of legal offers. “With subscription services from Spotify and Google Music, more and more options.” The secretary of state says pressure on to quickly with legislation, as the payment of copying charges in anticipation of the new legislation is frozen. The to pay extra for hard drives and mp3-players goes, as a means to right holders to compensate. Teeven says in January with a proposal for modernisation of the copyright. Teeven loves how, then, to the abolition of the copying charges.
It will be some time before the legislation comes after a committee meeting follows a debate in which all Mps can be present. Now there were only the specialists of all the political parties present. This is only voted on a proposal of Teeven. The secretary of state has the support of a majority of the Second Room will be necessary. After that, should the proposal be approved by the First Chamber.