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An intellectual property action plan to support the EU’s recovery and resilience (short presentation)
The report we are looking at is extremely important when it comes to the EU's economic recovery and resilience, but this report is not just about that. I recall that I am the author of an opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education, in which I tried to contribute to a more holistic approach to intellectual property rights. As an artist with many years of experience, I am well aware of the problems that people in the sector face on a daily basis and intellectual property law continues to be one of the most serious unresolved issues in Europe. Unfortunately, in the report, culture is present in only two places. It is noted that artists have been severely affected by the COVID-19 crisis and paragraph 38 regrets that illegal content is being streamed on the internet. The added value of intellectual law for the European economy cannot be underestimated. We must make it clear that the vast majority of workers in the cultural and creative sector somehow own intellectual property rights or similar. I believe that the report thus presented did not pay sufficient attention to them, did not identify weaknesses, did not recognise the needs of artists and cultural workers. Something that is unacceptable to me as a member of the artist's guild.