During the plenary session of the European Parliament (2-5 July 2018) in Strasbourg, MEPs vote on the Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations of the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market. Extracts from the vote on the report by Axel VOSS (EPP,DE)

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Decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations for a directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market: extracts from the vote on the report by Axel VOSS (EPP,DE) - illustrative shots

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SOUNDBITE (English), Pavel TELI&#268;KA (ALDE, CZ), EP Vice-President, opens the vote on the decision by JURI EP Committee to enter into interinstitutional negotiations on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, <p>We&rsquo;ve all have very intensive discussions but what is it about in this reform is an end of exploitation of European artists in the Internet. We are talking about the major US platforms like Google and Facebook that are making huge profits at the cost of European creators. We need to prevent that and I think that it is inexplicable how some people want to support these Internet capitalism.</p>

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, The campaign we were subject to, from Google, form Facebook and Amazon that are even contacting children of MEPs! All of these is based on lies: there are no limits put for individual users

SOUNDBITE (English), Catherine STIHLER (S&amp;D, UK), Rapporteur from IMCO, <p>There are real concerns about the effect of Article 13 on freedom of expression, raised by experts ranging from the UN special rapporteur Davide Kaye, to the inventor of the www, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. And there are real concerns voiced by our citizens, just yesterday I received a petition signed by almost a million people against the JURI committee mandate.</p>

SOUNDBITE (English), Catherine STIHLER (S&amp;D, UK), Rapporteur from IMCO, Something is not right here. We ought it to the experts, stakeholders and citizens, to give this directive the full debate necessary to achieve broad support. I ask you to refuse to fast track this law, to allow for a broad fact-based debate in September. Please reject the mandate and vote against the JURI proposal.

Vote on the mandate, atmosphere during the vote.

Results on screen: 278 votes in favour, 318 against and 31 abstentions.

Illustrative shots: man browsing and searching content on YouTube and google news