Julia Reda

Julia Reda
MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group
Assumed office
1 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1986-11-30) 30 November 1986
Bonn, West Germany
Nationality German
Political party Pirate Party Germany
Alma mater University of Mainz
Website juliareda.eu
Julia Reda introducing herself
recorded November 2011

Julia Reda (born 30 November 1986) is a German politician and activist. She has been a Member of the European Parliament representing Germany since 2014, and she also serves as a Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group.[1] She is also the president of the Young Pirates of Europe.[2]

Political career

Reda became a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany when she was 16 years old.[3] She studied politics and publicity sciences at the University of Mainz.[2] In 2009, Reda started to become active for the national Pirate Party and from 2010 to 2012 she was chairperson of the Young Pirates (Junge Piraten). In 2013, she was one of the co-founders of the Young Pirates of Europe. In January 2014, she was chosen to top the list of the candidates for the European Elections for the Pirate Party Germany, who subsequently won one seat.

In the European Parliament, Reda joined the Greens/EFA group. She is a member of the Legal Affairs committee as well as a substitute member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Petitions committees.[4] She is on the Steering Committee of the Digital Agenda intergroup, a forum of MEPs interested in digital issues.[5]

MEP Reda at informal meeting in Washington, DC, concerning copyright issues in the United States.

She has declared to make copyright reform her focus for the legislative term.[6]

In November 2014, Reda was named rapporteur of the Parliament's review of 2001's Copyright Directive.[7] Her draft report[8] recommended the EU-wide harmonisation of copyright exceptions, a reduction in term length, broad exceptions for educational purposes[9] and a strengthening of authors' negotiating position in relation to publishers, among other measures.[10]

Stakeholder reaction varied: The German artist coalition Initiative Urheberrecht generally welcomed the draft,[11] while the French collecting society SACD said it was "unacceptable";[12] author and copyright activist Cory Doctorow called the proposals "amazingly sensible",[13] while former Swedish Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter criticised them as too conservative.[14]

In 2015, Reda's report was passed by the legal affairs committee, but with an amendment that recommended restricting Freedom of panorama in Europe.[15] Reda strongly opposed this amendment and campaigned against it.[16] The amendment was later voted down by the plenary of the European Parliament.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Bureau". Greens/EFA group. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Julia Reda" (in German). Pirate Party Germany. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Widmannurl, Stefanie (10 January 2014). "Gebürtige Bonnerin ist Spitzenkandidatin der Piraten für Europawahlen". General-Anzeiger Bonn (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Member profile". European Parliament. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "Steering Committee". Digital Agenda Intergroup in the European Parliament. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "I will continue the cooperation with Greens/EFA". Julia Reda official website. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Falkvinge, Rick (4 January 2015). "In Europe, Pirates Are Writing The Copyright Law". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Draft Report on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society - PE 546.580v02-00". European Union.
  9. ↑ Steadman, Ian (30 January 2015). "The Pirate Party's lone MEP might just fix copyright across the EU". New Statesman. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Major copyright law reform on the EU agenda". ALCS News. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Pfenning, Gerhard (21 January 2015). "EU-Urheberrecht: Oettinger und Reda auf der Suche". Initiative Urheberrecht (in German). Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "Copyright: an unacceptable draft report at the European Parliament" (in French). Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (22 January 2015). "They put a Pirate Party MEP in charge of EU copyright reform: you won't believe awesomesauce that followed". Boing Boing. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  14. ↑ Andersdotter, Amelia (25 January 2015). "Pirate Party MEP fails to deliver true copyright reform". TorrentFreak.
  15. ↑ Morris, Hugh (24 June 2015). "Freedom of panorama: EU proposal could mean holiday snaps breach copyright". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  16. ↑ Reda, Julia. "Freedom of Panorama under threat". Julia Reda website. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  17. ↑ Seddon, Paul (9 July 2015). "European Parliament as it happened: 9 July 2015". BBC News Online. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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