Die
EU-Kommission hat eine Zusammenstellung der Antworten auf ihre
Umfrage zur Anwendung der Enforcement Richtlinie veröffentlicht. Ein
Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf der Verantwortlichkeit von
Diensteanbietern für Rechtsverletzungen ihrer Nutzer.
Während
Verwertungsgesellschaften und Rechteinhaber hier erwartungsgemäß
Verschärfungen fordern, sehen das die Anbieter anders.
“The
majority of rightholders and collecting societies demanded a greater
involvement of internet service providers and other intermediaries,
identifying them as key actors in combating IPR infringements in the
digital world. While most of the rightholders were calling for a
closer cooperation with intermediaries, only a few of them actively
advocated the implementation of filtering / monitoring technologies
or a duty of care principle (e.g. for intermediaries that actively
use, present, organise or modify third parties' content for
commercial purposes).”
bzw.
“Most
of the ISPs/telecommunication operators stressed that intermediaries
are not the infringers and that they are typically not in a position
to make qualitative judgments as to the legality of certain content.
These ISPs therefore considered that injunctions should remain
limited to the elimination of a concrete and actual infringement,
and not apply in view of possible future infringements. Filtering
and/or monitoring obligations were strongly opposed by almost all
ISPs and telecommunication operators. They claimed this would be
incompatible with the prohibition, in the E-Commerce Directive, of
general monitoring obligations, extremely costly, easy to circumvent
and would have negative effects on the overall performance of the
networks. Some ISPs took, furthermore, the view that interlocutory (provisional)
injunctions used as an enforcement remedy, are particularly damaging
for startups, taking into account their lower evidence requirements.
As the costs of a subsequent court case would often be too high for
startups, the interlocutory injunction would often be a definitive
judgment, terminating the startup's market entry.“
Zur
Diskussion steht auch eine nähere Ausgestaltung eines
Notice-And-Take-Down-Verfahrens:
„A
number of rightholders and collecting societies called for European
rules on NTD procedures. Academics proposed to improve the current
NTD procedures, in particular by providing for a mechanism that
would allow for a digital identification of protected content, and
thus prevent a repetition of the infringement once the content has
been taken down.“
