Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), rapporteur, and Sajjad KARIM (ECR, UK) speak to the press about the deal in trilogue on the copyright directive for the digital single market, in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg. Extracts from the press conference.

Deal in trilogue on the copyright directive for the digital single market: extracts from the press conference by Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), rapporteur

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, We managed to ensure that the use of a platform would not be liable for uploading something because legally speaking that would be copyright infringement and what we've done is to move the liability from the user to the platform.

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, It is only the bigger platforms that we seek to catch in this net. The platforms which fall under Article 13 are affected by a Franco German compromise by which young or new platforms and small platforms should be exempt from this liability. In order to give them an opportunity to grow on the market.

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, The idea that this is going to damage the Internet, it is going to restrict the internet. The Internet will no longer be the same. There won't be big platforms on the Internet anymore. The same opportunities won't be available. None of that is true or relevant and in that sense I think the compromise is a very good one.

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, Private digital consumption of press articles will continue to be outside these provisions for media publishing houses so private consumption private use is OK where there is a use for commercial ends then a license will have to be obtained from the media publishing houses.

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, Insubstantial parts can be accompanied by individual words and brief very very brief text excerpts. The background to this is that we wish to try to allow people who want to read an article to do so on the website of the media entity rather than the platform.

SOUNDBITE (English), Sajjad KARIM (ECR, UK), Shadow-rapporteur, Course when it comes to text and data mining the United Kingdom is the lead nation within the European Union on that. So there was a need to factor in a Brexit impact as well. So that's already coming through now. As a British MEP I still don't know quite where the Brexit train is going to stop or when it's going to stop. But it's quite right that the European Union is already factoring in that.

SOUNDBITE (German), Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, The very small platforms with a global turnover of up to 10 million euro and who have 5 million users monthly or up to three years. So there you have certain parameters certain sizes which we looked at and we say for those small platforms that they don't have the same responsibilities.

Deal in trilogue on the copyright directive for the digital single market: extracts from the press conference by Axel VOSS (EPP, DE), rapporteur

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