Julia Reda

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Julia Reda
MEP
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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 (age 37)
Bonn, West Germany
Nationality German
Political party Pirate Party Germany
Alma mater University of Mainz
Website juliareda.eu

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.[citation needed]

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]

Copyright reform

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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 proposal was accepted by the legal affairs committee, but with an amendment which would introduce non-commercial clause, effectively abolishing Freedom of panorama in Europe.[15] Reda herself stated that this was not what she meant to propose.[16] The amendment was later voted down by the European Parliament.[17]

References

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