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Article 13 of the copyright law went ahead directly because some deputies made a convenient 'mistake' when voting

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https://www.genbeta.com/actualidad/articulo-13-ley-copyright-salio-adelante-forma-directa-porque-algunos-diputados-se-equivocaron-al-votar

Yesterday, at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, one of the most tense days was remembered. As we already know, the MEPs voted in favor of approving the copyright directive, which with its articles 13 and 11, now renumbered to 15 and 17, can change the way we use the Internet, particularly with regard to the management of the rights in content platforms and how the search engines and aggregators show the linked media.

The directive went ahead in the Eurochamber of Strasbourg with 348 votes in favor, 274 against and 36 abstentions. A difference so great that it can not be thought that it was due to generalized misconceptions. Ramón Tremosa, European MEP of the ALDE group, voted in favor of being against the board, and has corrected his vote a posteriori. However, in another of the key moments of the day, more MEPs mistakenly voted, and later they corrected their vote (see page 51 of this document http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+PV+20190326+RES-RCV+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN ).

The vote on amendments to the directive was not made due to errors in the vote of some MEPs

The copyright directive was voted in full directly. Before that, the great hope of stopping it for its detractors was the turn to vote on amendments, among which there were some that requested the elimination of article 13 and 11 of the directive (which would return to their original form of 2016, that of the proposal of the European Commission). That is, it would have been approved, except with those two critical articles. It was the possibility that Julia Reda, one of the most critical MEPs, considered in her blog https://juliareda.eu/2019/03/copyright-vote-explained

However, the amendments could not be voted on individually, because 317 MEPs voted against being able to do so, compared to 312 who voted in favor and 24 who abstained. Hours later we learned, by the changes in registered votes, that Gerolf Annemans, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Dita Charanzová, Martina Dlabajová, Antanas Guoga, Eva Joly, Jo Leinen, Peter Lundgren, Michèle Rivasi, Kristina Winberg have modified their negative vote to an in favor one Subtracting those of the two MEPs who have modified their in favor vote to against, and one that changed from against to abstention, we have left 320 votes in favor for 309 against.

In the end, we win even if it does not count:

After the corrections of vote (which have no consequences), the first vote would have been won. Vote that could have allowed to take out articles 13 and 11 (17 and 15 in final version) of the Directive

The problem is that the corrections of votes have no consequences, so there is nothing in the hands of the MEPs. It is very sad that due to a procedural issue, the process can not be reopened and debate changes to the most controversial articles of the directive. It will have to be the Council of the European Union that decides the final destination of the copyright directive.

#eu #copyright

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