Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, welcomes the adoption of the information report on the assessment and prospects of thirty years of private copying by the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education of the National Assembly.
She congratulated the mission’s rapporteur, Marcel Rogemont and its president, Virginie Duby-Muller, as well as all its members, on the outstanding quality of the work done since the beginning of their work last January.
The report of the parliamentary mission confirms and amplifies the reflections given on July 2 by the mediator Christine Maugüé to the Minister. It notes that remuneration for private copying is based on a virtuous mechanism for the benefit of users, as well as creators, and represents an important issue for the remuneration of rights holders and for support for creation. It therefore recommends reaffirming the indemnity nature of the scheme, excluding any proposal for taxation, and retaining the principle of a committee responsible for fixing the scales of remuneration.
The report nevertheless notes that the current system of remuneration for private copying is faced, thirty years after its establishment, with multiple challenges that need to be reinforced. To this end, it sets out a number of specific recommendations aimed at strengthening the legitimacy of the system. These recommendations relate in particular to: the transparency of the mechanism for fixing remuneration; the question of the remuneration base; the efficiency of the procedure for reimbursing remuneration for the benefit of professional purchasers; the transparency and readability of the use of a quarter of the amount of remuneration for artistic and cultural actions.
In the coming weeks, Fleur Pellerin will focus on evaluating the recommendations of the information report, which is timely and should be considered in the context of the bill on freedom of creation, the architecture and the heritage whose examination is scheduled for the new school year.
In parallel with this reflection, the Minister has already initiated the implementation of the roadmap resulting from the mediation mission of Christine Maugüé. It intends without delay to restore the conditions of consensus and efficiency that will make it possible to sustain a mechanism whose importance the parliamentary mission confirms.