Amelia Andersdotter Member of the

TRANSPARENCY REPORT 2013

2013 Foreword

After being elected in 2009, a bureaucratic many issues where I would like to do much mess made me have to wait for over two more. But I can say with certainty that me years before I could begin my term in Brus- and my staff have put our mark in the areas sels. Landing in the European Parliament where we work, and I am very proud to be after such a long and uncertain wait was a leading my team here in . is a Member of the European Parliament. She represents the Swedish and within Parliament, tumultuous experience. During this time, she belongs to the Greens / EFA political group. however, I had the incredible fortune of This report is about some of being able to follow many political processes the things me and my team have done so far. in the Parliament up close: first as an intern We have compiled it to help you better un- and then as a local assistant for my col- derstand what it is we have been working for league Christian Engström. December 2011 and so that you can check that those things marked the time for me to begin the political are what I said I would do. work. I took this task very seriously: making This is for all of you. justice to all those who have voted for me is a difficult task. i had been living in Belgium, Romania and . I believed that the task of representing the generation, which is global, would be easier if I had additional perspectives and more knowledge to bring. This turned out to be right, having this ex- perience has made it infinitely easier to see how various policy spaces can connect to peoples daily lives. As a result I have dealt with a wide and Varför engelska? varied range of political issues concerning Amelia är en svensk politiker, så varför är den här rapporten på engelska? Det är enkelt: Amelia our society today: the information society. har ett internationellt kontor och det mesta av texten skrevs av praktikanterna Jan Louzek (Tjeck- Of course, I almost always feel strained as ien) och Galia Mancheva (Bulgarien). Ulf Pettersson hjälpte till med bilder och redigering. there are so many more things to do and so

2 3 Opinions and values ““I hope to change the world. This is what Basic Amelia I strive to accomplish with every talk.

Defend Internet Freedom more and more of the internet is a farce. It turning into instruments of protectionism. ““The internet is in a state of martial law: is denying citizens the freedom to exchange are used to curb freedom of ex- The internet age is the first time where the culture and information. as it pression. Increasingly, enforcement of rights world has incorporated almost all of the there are virtually no restrictions for stands is ineffective; it leads only to fear, is outsourced from the private sector unto knowledge, thoughts, opinions and experi- what the police and security services are unjust imprisonment and the blocking of public authorities, creating double and triple ences of humanity in one gigantic conversa- cultural interchange. costs for citizens that have to pay for the tion where almost everyone can take at least allowed to do. All over the internet, people remix maintenance of rights that ultimately restrict some part. Its success is built on freedom: culture and share experiences with a very their freedoms. on the and on open and tion society poses several challenges to both unusual excuse “I don’t like pirated vide- Amelia wants a progressive industrial free ways of connecting. It not only makes it legislators and innovators: the technical os, but this song is so great I just have to and innovation policy which is based on easier for us all to share solutions to human- problems, while interesting, are difficult. share it with you. No copyright infringement inclusion, low market entrance barriers and ity’s most pressing problems, to educate Politically, the challenge is to withstand an intended.” This is one example, of many, of . A framework of ineffective and and inform, but also to criticize and discuss, American industrial policy which restricts how people are unable to reconcile they way strict monopoly rights for various industri- entertain and amuse. privacy to the consumer rights field, rather they need to use the internet of today with al activities is clearly not the right tool to this freedom is bad news to some; to than considering it a fundamental right. the copyright laws of yesterday. Amelia is not achieve these goals. those who benefit from keeping others in the challenges are many: government alone to summarized this with the simple the dark or disconnected from each other; to military interests and security agencies, with sentence: “Copyright is dead”. A united those who do not like open discussions and affiliated business associates, are invading these are some of the reasons why free debates; to those who have old profits the information society at a rapid pace. Amelia is convinced that copyright needs to TO AMELIA, the European Union represents to guard and easy monopolies to maintain. While privacy and self-determination is undergo a fundamental overhaul, and soon. hope. In many of the challenges facing the They are wrong and they are a threat to the necessary for people to have trust in other information society, not the least of which internet as we know it. This is why Amelia actors, these values are eroded by both is pervasive surveillance and spooky intelli- believes that internet freedom must be not government and industrial interests. Amelia gence agencies, the European Union has a only be defended, but seriously strength- ““We completely lack a debate about what believes in setting a new direction for society chance to take a progressive lead for funda- ened. and policy making, which values the individ- extent of rent-seeking is desirable. mental rights. ual’s right to self-determination and their More privacy own identities. ““Together we are strong, at peace and Abolish the government of surveillance UNDO REMAKE copyright Break down the barriers - open up the working for a better tomorrow. THE Right to privacy is the right to shape your own identity without undue influence from More free knowledge and more cultural knowledge the outside. The basic protection of privacy sharing As a peace project, the Union is in a unique A different field of problems which concern in the EU is guaranteed by the charter of place to put people’s interests over the Amelia are all the other intellectual property fundamental rights of the Union and the Comprehensive copyright reform is a cen- governments’. The democratic deficits in the rights. Monopolies on knowledge can be nec- European Convention of Human rights. As tral goal for Amelia. The current system of EU should of course not be denied; instead, essary, but special interests have distorted such, privacy is seen as a pre-condition for monopoly for 70 years after the death of the they should be fixed. them beyond anything reasonable. democratic, stable societies. The informa- creator, extreme sentences of years in prison and detailed monitoring and blocking of block, rather than foster, innovation and are

4 5 ✯ A chievements in parliament ✯ During her short but intense term in the European Parliament, Amelia has worked on over 40 different pieces of legislation. These are some of her greatest achievements to date.

Defeating ACTA

ACTA, an agreement bearing the full name of serious and unexpected bad consequences Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, was for citizens rights. The support for ACTA an international treaty that — according to started to weaken. the official version — should put an end to the road to defeating ACTA went via the A citizens thank you. After winning the ACTA vote, Amelia and other MEPs who had fought against ACTA were showered with flowers. The flowers were sent by citizens from all over Europe and filled up the entire Parliament mail room. Standing first to is Amelias Pirate counterfeiting in international trade. rejection in several committees of the Par- party colleague, Christian Engström. in reality, ACTA was more an attempt to liament. One of Amelia’s greatest successes intriduce draconian laws of copyright en- was her strong criticism of ACTA within the forcement, border controls and surveillance Industry and Research Committee, ITRE. of the internet. The agreement was drafted As an almost completely new and unknown with all volunteers from across the continent was most likely going to reject the treaty, in secret by negotiators with ties to the me- committee member she became the Greens organized massive demonstrations. Amelia and that the best thing they could do was to dia industries. Instead of preventing coun- rapporteur for the committee opinion on took active part in the campaign against the delay the final vote. They tried but neverthe- terfeiting, ACTA would have criminalized ACTA. Amelia brought forward a severe treaty in Sweden. One of the results of these less failed to postpone the final vote. legal online sharing and crippled information critique of the agreement and recommended protests was several petitions against the exchange and cultural progress. A key player the treaty’s outright rejection. The commit- treaty, one of which was signed by 2.8 million The news that ACTA had been rejected by in revealing the secret ACTA negotiations to tee voted in favor of Amelia’s opinion. In people all over Europe. As they saw growing the European Parliament on the 4:th of July the public was WikiLeaks. addition, the treaty had also been rejected on streets of their capitals, some 2012 was celebrated by concerned citizens in the first half of 2012 Amelia, the Pirate by all the other opinion giving committees. national governments started to withdraw all over the world and by Amelia especially. movement and the Green group in the Eu- In the end, the lead Committee on Interna- their support for the agreement. 478 MEPs voted against the treaty and 165 ropean Parliament did their best to evaluate tional Trade also voted for rejection, with bAck in the European Parliament, ACTA abstained compared with only 39 MEPs ACTA as a treaty in a proper and objective Amelia cooperating with the rapporteur of was still up due for the final, plenary vote. voting in its favor. Thanks to the rejection way. This was, however, a very complicated that committee. It could be either approved or rejected: the of ACTA by the European Parliament not a task, since most of the documents related in the meantime, Pirate movements possibility to amend it was excluded in gen- single member state in the EU is able to join to the treaty were still secret. Several com- throughout the whole of eral. The widespread distrust of the treaty’s this treaty of internet destruction. mittees of the Parliament were interested in origins in deep secrecy was magnified by And As an alternative, Amelia proposed evaluating ACTA, especially the Committee a request from the Parliament to make all an open and honest discussion about intel- on International Trade. Some of the parlia- An Anti-ACTA documents related to ACTA public, as soon lectual property: a democratic discourse, demonstration in balanced but with an emphasis on freedoms mentarians came to the conclusion that even , February as the final draft was ready for approval. if the defending of intellectual property is a 2012. The huge public the representatives of the industry and far from the methods used when ACTA crucial issue for the EU, ACTA would lead to protests caused other was constructed. European Parliament lobbies started to realize that the Parliament members to listen. 6 7 ✯ A chievements in parliament ✯ ✯ A chievements in parliament ✯

Reigning in A faster Defending the copyright internet for all net neutrality mafia to EU research

Our internet freedom also depends on the Amelia advocates net neutrality in all telecom- The Collective Rights Management Direc- During the revision of the EU research pro- technical capacities of the network. Amelia munications. This means that network oper- tive is a new legislation with the purpose of gramme, Amelia contributed to the promo- strongly fights to make the internet network ators and internet service providers should regulating copyright collecting societies. As tion and ensurance of open access to EU of Europe as fast as possible, so that we all not be allowed to discriminate between in- a major copyright reform Amelia has taken a funded research results and publications. gain the freedom to use our own preferred ternet traffic on commercial grounds. Rather deep interest and submitted a total of more In particular, she worked for open access ways to communicate. than a system where some are able to pay than 150 amendments. to journals and data, a proposal which was Since her arrival in Brussels Amelia has for a larger share of the pie, all requests for Amelia proposed major changes in favor largely supported by researchers and indus- pushed for the most ambitious high-speed internet access should be treated equally. of , users rights and try alike. agenda possible. She convinced her col- the telecommunication operators common sense: Amelia wanted to see requirements for leagues to more than triple the minimum threaten to derail this: they want to control openness included as early in the research speed initially proposed by the European the internet to the detriment of equal access • Increase transparency in the licensing and process as possible. It was particularly im- Commission: from 30 Mbps to 100 Mbps for all users. To counter this, in the begin- repertoire of collecting societies. portant to ensure that the terms of publica- by 2020. Now she is defending that target ning of 2013 Amelia took a leading position • Strengthen the rights of both the users and tion for research and data are known at the against national and private interests of big in ensuring that the European Parliament the authors. beginning of the project, rather than hastily telecommunication companies, who prefer adopts a clear and strong position in favor of • Provide better opportunities for authors to rushed together at the end. to get EU tax payer money while only provid- net neutrality. As the telecoms providers are use open and free licenses. in addition, Amelia contributed to a ing very low capacity. trying to keep their easy monopoly profits up push for better transparency in intellectual poor internet capacity is a disaster for the fight goes on. In the Industry committee In the end, Amelia and her colleague Chris- property licensing, to ensure that results innovation and dangerous for internet free- Amelia continues to defend the important tian Engström’s proposals formed part of the from EU research can effectively be used by dom. The lower the speeds, the more Old principle of net neutrality. In particular she compromise that was adopted by the Legal all European market actors and citizens. In Telecom is able to keep competition down, is pressuring the Commission to deliver on Affairs Committee. doing so she contributed to the raising of the while privileging their own services. Low their promises to secure a neutral and com- general awareness of open access within the speeds makes them able to argue that they petitive internet platform for all. Parliament. She is now continuing to discuss need to regulate the information flow be- research and innovation topics with col- cause of “traffic congestion”. Amelia wants leagues to see where further improvements the EU public money to serve real industrial can be made. ambitions. We need innovation for the ben- efit of the citizens rather than the protection of old monopoles.

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““It is a big issue for the future of the European Union how we can define together our social context by the sharing of data, informa- Smarter and more secure Giving the tion and even cultural content authentication online citizens their with each other.

FOR THE Proposed regulation on Electronic IN THE end, Amelia introduced a terminology members of the European Parliament. Some transactions in Europe, Amelia is fighting for in line with state-of-the-art research and the information seemed to believe that it does not matter strong security via transparency in the way institutional frameworks already existing for what format the information is released in, the network is managed. At the same time, a good balance of powers between citizens under a misleading wording of “technology citizens privacy needs to be protected. She and governments. She proposed to change back neutral” rules. But this risked relegating the has introduced and defends the following many of the core concepts and align them public information to proprietary formats, principles: with both architectural and value-based where it would be put under a “business The idea is to better harmonize the availa- regulation of technology. lock”. Its access and re-use would have been bility, pricing and size of the large amount • Unlinkability of different citizens a when Amelia set up two major goals. The first restricted and the whole point of the text of data produced by the public administra- they interact with public services, including was to align the regulation with the current would be in jeopardy. via anonymous authentication. tions, things that include the right sources, understanding of trust frameworks and au- Amelia managed to convince the Parlia- information on bridges and infrastructure, • Tougher liability and transparency disclo- thentication mechanisms. The second was to ment to withdraw all the references to tech- public documents and travel catalogues. sure requirements for trust service provid- ensure that authentication mechanisms do nology neutral and replace them by “open Machine-readable formats should be the ers who secure the transactions. not become a means of mass surveillance. format”, which will be eventually and where rule in order to facilitate exchange and the possible chosen for containing public sector • Removal of the misguided idea of qualified construction of new data tools. trust services for which European Commis- information. only under special circumstances shall sion set bad security requirements. open standards will be used “in so far as authorities be permitted to charge more for possible”. The total amount charged by pub- the data than what it costs to produce it and Being wholly unhappy with the confusing ter- lic bodies for the re-use of documents would make it public. The number of authorities minology established by the European Com- be limited to the marginal costs incurred for that are subject to the new rules is large mission and the lack of push in the proposal their reproduction, provision and dissemina- and libraries and museums are proposed to to take advantage of previous European re- ““Being wholly unhappy with the tion, which should in principle ensure charg- provide data as soon as reasonably possible, search projects and industrial investments, es close to zero. However the conservative confusing terminology estab- given the costs and time. Amelia tried to change the direction of the majority in the Industry committee managed Amelia’s amendments were aimed regulation. She invested heavily in speaking through confusing and tricky wording to seri- lished by the Commission, Ame- towards much deeper openness than origi- with as many experts in the field as possible ously limit in practice the implementation of nally proposed. Uniquely, she also fought to as well as in learning—in detail—how the the marginal costs. lia tried to change the direction include the cultural sector in the framework. technology works and what this means in the vote in plenary is foreseen for the A big source of worry appeared in the terms of policy choices. of the regulation. beginning of 2014. beginning of the negotiations between the

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Keeping space safe ...and clean

According to the European Space Agency Awareness programs that do not only detect about 17,000 man-made objects in the dif- and track space objects or debris, but also ferent orbits are currently being monitored analyse Near Earth objects like asteroids, as from the ground. Some 10,000 of these well as space weather phenomenons such as objects are fragments created by explosions solar activity. The most important stakehold- and collisions that have occurred in orbit. A er is the Unites States. Currently in Europe small part of them are dead satellites dating there is a lack of capacity, and dependence back from the Cold War and active satellites. from data provided by third-countries. Even if space launching are stopped now, the number of debris will still increase. Certain Amelia Andersdotter pushes for action on the orbits, like the Low Earth Orbit, 2,000 km following points: above the Earth, are at risk of being congest- • Making the best use of available technolo- ed. The multiplication of space debris is a gies and skills, while having a large scope risk not only for spacecraft’s already in orbit of participants that will take part of the but also for space launching to the Middle service. Earth and Geostationary orbits, where most • Cooperation on information between all rel- of the Earth observation and telecommuni- evant stakeholders, including commercial cation satellites are. and scientific ones. the European Commission therefore pro- • Amelia also insists on decreasing the posed to initiate a Space Surveillance and dependence of the EU as regards SST vis- Tracking program, focusing on coordinating a-vis third-countries’, while enhancing the available capacities and delivering a new cooperation with them. service. As the Parliament rapporteur on this • More transparency on the budget, as well as issue, Amelia welcomes the initiative as a to whom the responsibility of each of these good start. If it is successfully established, it activities will be allocated. could be the basis of a later global EU Space

Situational Awareness capacity. As a technical issue, the file is foreseen to A simulated collission in space. The image shows a test of the impact of space debris. (We put the picture here mostly because it looks Different countries and organisations move through Parliament and Council with- cool, and it does, don’t you agree?) In reality, there are many thousands of space debris objects orbiting earth. As more and more satel- in the world provide Space Situational out major changes or controversies. lites go up, the space debris problem is getting worse year by year.

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Working hard Amelia by the numbers

As of September 2013, Amelia has been working in the European Parliament for about 600 days. In this relatively short time she has amended 38 reports with over 865 amendments. She has been the rapporteur for one co-decision report and two committee opinions, has asked the Commission some 103 written questions, and has co-sponsored four resolutions and one written declaration.

Running to the next meeting. The parliament building is seriously huge.

Time management. Amelias calendar frequently fea- tures double and triple bookings. Plenary sessions in Strasbourg, when the Parliament votes, are especially hectic.

Interview during a Strasbourg session.

14 15 Hacking the law These are some of the issues Amelia has been working on in the respective committees:

Legal bug-fixing by parliament committee Industry committee — ITRE

• Trans-European telecommunications networks — 44 amendments Committee on Industry, Re- that might harm the internet and its users. • Connecting Europe facility — 14 amendments search and Energy (ITRE) in the autumn of 2013 Amelia is the rap- • Horizon 2020 - Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020 — 20 amend- porteur for Space surveillance and tracking ments Amelia is a member of the ITRE Committee support programme report. This means that • Re-use of public sector information — 11 amendments since she started in December 2011. ITRE the European Parliament has appointed her is the committee responsible not only for as responsible for writing a text with amend- • Critical information infrastructure protection — 4 amendments industrial and research-related issues, but ments and comments on the upcoming • Online distribution of audiovisual works — 2 amendments also information technology. legislation on space surveillance and track- • General data protection regulation — 148 amendments Amelia’s work in the committee is ground- ing. The ultimate goal of the legislation is to ed in Pirate ideas and values such as open- solve the problem of space debris: the man- • Electronic identification and trust services — 111 amendments ness, transparency, freedom of information, made junk in space that threatens satellites • Completing the Digital Single Market — 9 amendments privacy and evidenced-based policy. She was and space travel. The first step is to create • Consumer product safety — 12 amendments the main rapporteur for the committee opin- systems that track the debris, which is what ion on the ACTA international treaty. Thanks this legislation is about. • Collective rights management — 68 amendments to her efforts and work the agreement was • Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe — 17 amendments rejected by this committee, and then, party as a result, by the International Trade Com- Committee on Internation- • Regulatory framework for electronic communications — 12 amendments mittee and finally by the entire European al trade (INTA) Parliament. Amelia is also a substitute member of the Trade committee — INTA most of Amelia’s work on the telecom- Committee on International trade. In this munications agenda is done within the ITRE committee, she follows trade related top- • ACTA committee. As a member of the committee ics, especially those concerning freedom of she visits numerous events, workshops and • Digital freedom strategy in European foreign policy — 5 amendments knowledge, intellectual property, information conferences (i.e. ENISA, Open access etc.) on • Financing EU SMEs trade and investment: access to credit — 5 amendments technology and the internet. One special all topics relevant to her work. Being a mem- responsibility in this committee is following • Development aspects of IPR on genetic resources — 4 amendments ber of the committee strengthens Amelia’s international agreements that the EU enters position when it comes to promoting the free • Framework for financial responsibility linked to ISDS into with other parts of the world. internet and the blocking of proposals for • Collective rights management — 96 amendments , surveillance or anything similar • regulation and directive — 6 amendments

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At the office door. Ame- lias office is small but open: it is constantly busy with activists, internet entrepreneurs, hackers and other upstanding citizens. Lobbyists are accepted but only under controlled conditions and in moderate doses.

Keeping the bureaucrats accountable Questions to the Commission

Written questions to the European Com- mission is a way of keeping the Commission accountable. Since she started Amelia has forwarded more than 103 questions on a Representing the EU range of topics.

Among other things, Amelia has asked the Commission critical or informative questions The delegation to on , the protection of children online, on trade and investment in international treaties as well as on many the Korean peninsula aspects of copyright and the politics of infor- mation technology.

Amelia is a substitute member of the dele- of the delegation, in the autumn of 2012 gation to the Korean peninsula. The Korean Amelia was invited to contribute to an expert delegation holds regular meetings in Brus- round-table on human rights in North Korea sels and Strasbourg to follow developments focusing on how to normalize the country North and South Korea. Inter-parliamentary and facilitate its transition into the demo- meetings with the National Assembly of cratic world. Because of her great interest in South Korea take place twice a year. matters related to Korea, Amelia was select- Amelia has been following the work in ed to join the Korean delegations official visit the Korean delegation closely. As a member to North and South Korea in the summer of 2013. Amelias office bookshelf. Unusally thin when this picture was taken.

18 19 how and when data protection helps us strengthen our great awareness related to this issue, Crea- overall network security. Now, with the current NSA tive Commons is a simple license, that can spying scandal, ENISA should work towards providing us with a more transparent picture of all security risks everyone can use. The license is designed across EU towards those who actually suffer from the in a way that it can promote cultural inter- security flaws – we, the European citizens. change in a much faster way than before.

To show some examples of works that are Opening up public infor- licensed under CC, Amelia decided to do a mation for transparency, showcasing of several so-called short Open knowledge and growth movies (Sintel, Big Buck Bunny and Tears of • Date October 17, 2012 Steel). All of them were made by the Blender foundation, a software foundation whose • What Discussion and debate in relation to legislative file goal is to promote Blender — a program created for 3D animation. Informing the debate • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter & MEP Ivailo Kalfin, S+D The movies themselves were introduced by special guests: Legal scholar Andres Guada- The event was organized in order to promote muz, who came to speak about the Creative Events in Parliament freeing and opening up of all information Commons and Ton Roosendaal, director of created by public services, such as meteor- the Blender Foundation. A general discus- ological, cadastral, transport and all other sion about copyright policy followed. kinds of data. thors Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan this highly successful event facilitated Sharing: Culture and the Bloggers for Economy in the Internet Carlos De Martin Amelia Andersdotter’s proposal to make all public sector information available in open • DATE December 5, 2012 Age • HOSTED BY Amelia Andersdotter & MEP and machine readable formats. • WHAT Bloggers around the world fighting for • DATE May 15, 2012 prof. Ioannis Tsoukalas, EPP democracy • WHAT Book launch & discussion with Showcasing the Creative • HELD BY Amelia Andersdotter & MEP Ulrike author Philippe Aigrain ENISA - Network and Infor- Commons Through Open Lunacek & MEP Indrek Tarand, both Greens mation research at the • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter & MEP Movies Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-president of the frontiers of Knowledge This conference took place on 5th December • DATE November 14, 2012 Greens and Europe 2013 in European Parliament. The organiz- • DATE September 25, 2012 • WHAT Movie screening & discussion ers were: Amelia Andersdotter (Sweden), The author has presented in-depth exploration of together with Ulrike Lunacek (), digital culture and its dissemination, Sharing offers a • WHAT Round-table discussion on ENISA • HOSTED BY Amelia Andersdotter counterpoint to the dominant view that is Indrek Tarand (Estonia) and Werner Schulz HOSTED BY . Instead, Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of • Amelia Andersdotter & MEP It is a well known fact that most of the citi- (). file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists Giles Chichester, ECR zens EU have very bad overall knowledge Amelia was also one of the moderators of to be appreciated more easily. Concentrating not only about licenses in general and licensing the first half of the conference. Three expert on the cultural enrichment caused by widely shared Other guests: Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht – executive digital media, Sharing also discusses new financing director of ENISA (European Network and Information policy related to various kinds of multi. This guests, Martin Löwdin, Linus Nordberg and models that would allow works to be shared freely Security Agency), Dr. Marmix Helmbrecht – Network fact is then used by many sides for weaken- James Losey spoke about the architecture by individuals without aim at profit. Aigrain carefully Information Security expert ing the position of internet users or people enabling free blogging. The main topics were balances the needs to support and reward creative ac- in general when dealing with information mostly two; how blogging and online infor- The European Agency for Network Security, ENISA, a tivity with a suitable respect for the cultural common mation sharing helped to spread the word good and proposes a new interpretation of the digital civilian rather than military network security body, is technologies. landscape. currently located in Heraklion, in Crete. It has worked in order to change this issue Amelia de- of revolution and change during the Arabian there since 2004 to strengthen preparedness and cided to organize the “Showcasing the Crea- summer, and what threats are we currently knowledge against threats to stability in European tive Commons Through Open Movies”. The facing, when it comes to online surveillance. The Digital Public Domain: information networks. ENISA has a fixed term office, Several examples were presented: An Arabic which expires in 2014. If the mandate is not renewed main goal of this event was to present the Foundations of Open Cul- the office will be shut down. Creative Commons license to general public, world, where the revolution was triggered ture as well as to the people inside of the Europe- thanks to (and not only thanks to) bloggers After Amelia Andersdotter’s proposal, in 2013 the • DATE June 18, 2012 an Parliament. While proprietary and strict and a contradictory world: , where Parliament voted for a seven year extension to ENISA’s the local political regime controls everything, • WHAT Discussion and book launch with au- term of office. Now ENISA has a mandate to discuss licenses are in use everyday and there is a

20 21 Opening up public information for Showcasing the Creative transparency, knowledge and growth Commons through Open Movies The re-use of public sector information: What does it mean, what can it bring? AN OPEN MOVIE SCREENING & DISCUSSION

Big Buck Bunny Animated short

MOVIES Internet SCREENED: And SocIAl MedIA AS Sintel Animated short

Tears of Steel Live Action short

• Tools of Freedom 17 October 14:00 – 16:00 November 14 18:30 – 20:30 R O O M • J A N 4 Q 2 THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT • ROOM: A1G3

S P E A K E R S SPEAKERS Thibaut Kleiner (European Commission), Marc de Vries (ePSI platform) Andres Guadamuz • The Creative Commons Chris Taggart (OpenCorporates), Boyan Yurukov (Open gov blog) Ton Roosendaal • Movie producer & Director, The Blender Foundation A joI n T conF erence orgA n I zed by Martin Kliehm (Frankfurt City Council), Ben White (British Library)

H O S T E D B Y HOSTED BY Paweł Zalewski (e PP) & a melia a ndersdotter (Greens / e Fa) MEP Ivailo Kalfin (S&D) & Amelia Andersdotter (Greens/EFA) Amelia Andersdotter, MEP INFO & REGISTRATION BEFORE 15 OCTOBER: [email protected] INFO & REGISTRATION BEFORE NOVEMBER 12: [email protected] european Parliament › room Asp A5g-3 18 june 2013 › 16:00 –18:00

MOVIE SCREENING

AgendA 16:00-16:15 opening remarks › Paweł Zalewski ‹ MeP 16:15-17:30 Panel discussion

DATE TIME ROOM › lina ben Mhenni ‹ blogger “Tunisian girl” ‹ blogger from Turkey A P R I L 2 2 19 – 21 A 1 G 3 › gürkan Özturan › Amelia Andersdotter ‹ MeP › katarzyna szymielewicz ‹ president of Panoptykon Foundation PROGRAMME › Jarosław lipszyc ‹ president of Modern Poland Foundation AND TRUST SERvICES 19:00 – INTRO BY AMELIA eID 19:05 – MOVIE › Paweł Zalewski ‹ MeP 20:30 – DISCUSSION

✚ COCKTAILS WILL BE SERVED 17:30-17:50 Q&a session APRIL 10 11:00–13:00 ASP 3G2 SPEAKERS 17:50-18:00 conclusion › Amelia Andersdotter ‹ MeP lunch sandwiches served afterwards SIMON KLOSE · MOVIE DIRECTOR 18:00-18:30 opening of the exhibition „From samizdat to Internet” SPEAKERS INCLUDE · PARTY LEADER, SWEDISH PIRATE PARTY Paul Nemitz · Director DG Justice Andrea Servida · eIDAS 18:30 reception › cocktails Thomas Rössler · W3C Harald Zwingelberg · ABC 4 Trust Christiana Mauro · Central European University Nele Leosk · EUI

HOSTED BY HOSTED AND MODERATED BY Amelia Andersdotter22 Jürgen Creutzmann Marielle Gallo AMELIA ANDERSDOTTER, MEP 23 eliminating every uprising or revolt in its Amelia wanted to change the focus from This conference was held during the work Internet and Social Media very beginning. technical requirements to political consider- with the Collective Rights Management as Tools of Freedom the second part of this event was most- ations and citizens rights. She wanted to see: directive. Organized by the Green group • Date June 18, 2013 ly dedicated to the social changes related • Stronger preferences for privacy enhancing and co-hosted by Amelia Andersdotter, it • What Conference on how the internet ad- to blogging and information sharing in the technologies. featured a range of stakeholders represent- vances personal freedom world today. Main guests were some of the • The removal of the misguided notion of ing a broad view of the issue: not just rights • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter & MEP worlds most respected bloggers from all over qualified trust service providers and quali- holders and big media companies. Paweł Zalewski, EPP the countries where the internet is sub- fied trust services. the main aim and focus of the event was jected to censorship. The invited bloggers to try to promote the idea of why it is good • Tougher transparency requirements as well were: Sarrah Abdelrahman from Egypt, Oleg for citizens to have free access to culture Amelia Andersdotter and Paweł Zalewski as clearer market divisions between trust (European People’s Party) hosted this joint Kaschin from Russia and Michael Anti from service providers. and creative content. As her contributors to China. the debate, Amelia invited noted copyright conference on “Internet and Social Media economist Christian Handke and the music as Tools for Freedom”. The main aim of the service provider Jamendo. event was to present the role of the internet Document Freedom Day : Away From Keyboard and the social media in building civil society • Date March 27, 2013 and fighting oppression. The conference • Date April 22, 2013 Shaping The Future of Euro- • What Recurring yearly conference on docu- focused on the recent events in Turkey, the ment freedom • What Screening of the documentary TP- pean Security and Defence revolution in Tunisia that was part of the B:AFK Policy Arab Spring, and the mass protests against • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter, MEP Eva ACTA in Poland. All of these events have Lichtenberger & MEP Judith Sargentini, • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter • Date June 4, 2013 one thing in common: the internet was the both Greens • What Seminar on security The documentary movie, that was made participants key tool. In each instance it was • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter This year’s conference discussed data port- between 2008 and 2012 was presented to the the main platform used for organizing. ability and privacy in the eHealth sector as viewers in the European Parliament. Main most important is the internet and social Shaping the Future of European Security and well as open standards for critical digital goal of this event was to help others from the media’s ability to serve as a space for dis- Defence Policy was a chain of seminars, that infrastructure. Parliament to know what consequences are cussion: this is how contemporary civil was intended for young decision-makers. the event focused on the relatively new facing the founders and creators of the Pi- society is built and how political opinions Amelia Andersdotter co-hosted the Saab concept of data portability and the need for rate Bay portal. The idea was to raise aware- are formed. This helps to strengthen public seminar on Network and Information Securi- robust patient centric privacy in eHealth. ness about the current state of prosecution sphere, gives more opportunities to engage ty at the European Parliament on 4 June 2013 The accent was on the importance of having of those who are accused of violation of cop- in public speech and enables collective ac- together with Henrik Vassallo, VP & Head of transparent and open infrastructures and yright laws in various European countries. tion. The coordinative role of the new social the Saab Brussels office. Organizer of the how to politically handle responsibility and the movie focuses on the court case filed media cannot be overestimated. Using Twit- event was Saab Public Affairs EU & NATO. define frameworks within the scope of the in Sweden against the founders of The Pirate ter and Facebook protesters are able to or- There were three seminars of this kind; eID and eSignature regulations. Bay — , Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid ganize quickly in a way that does not require Svartholm — by the Hollywood movie in- Amelia co-hosted the second one, dedicated any formal organization, that helps to save dustry and computer game industry. Filming to network and information security issues. time, and that does not need big funds. This eID and Trust Services began in Summer 2008 and concluded on 25 dUring the workshop Amelia opened communicative freedom is a precursor for • Date April 10, 2013 February 2012. several topics related to the Pirates politics political freedom. As a free internet provides in the area of internet security. First of all she • What Hearing in relation to legislative file Following the screening was a discus- the means to support a civil society even in sion with the director of the film Simon pointed out that there is a need to define authoritarian regimes, democratic change is • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter, MEP Klose and Anna Troberg, chairperson of the who cyber-security should be for, the citizen coming to unforeseen corners of the globe. Jürgen Creutzmann & MEP Marielle Gallo, Swedish Pirates. or the public authorities and companies, and both EPP what it should protect us from. Additionally, it was debated whose responsibility it is if A discussion about data protection during Collective Rights Manage- a system is attacked. She also said that a electronic transactions and how the market ment: How to make it work united Europe need to have united policies can be regulated when it comes to private • Date May 16, 2013 regarding cyber-security. The current trend data providers. Amelia has fought hard for tends to be unproductive, as the cyber-secu- • Event Hearing in relation to legislative file better data protection and personal integrity. rity policies are still too much coordinated With this event she promoted privacy friend- • Hosted by Amelia Andersdotter, MEPs Eng- on a national level, and not on the European ly networks and more secure e-transactions. ström, Lichtenberger & Trüpel one.

24 25 AMELIA ANDERSDOTTER AND STAFF PRESENTS A REAL LIFE STORY INSIDE THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

#exile6e Amelia’s own web-series

#exile6e: The main show The show is available under the Creative Commons licence. 41 episodes of the show The common stereotype about European have been produced so far (three seasons in Parliament is that the institution lacks trans- total). parency, both in the drafting and decision making, as well as in the chances it leaves for citizens to understand how the organization Hacking The #exile6e really works. Hacking the exile6e is the name for the in order to change this and provide more “behind the scenes” program about the transparency, Amelia decided to open up her #exile6e a documentary series. It features parliament-related work. The result takes the interviews with the crew responsible for form of documentary webisodes in a series preparation of the #exile6e series. called #exile6e. The name was chosen in reference to the fact that Amelia’s office, un- like almost all MEPs, is located in exile from the rest of her political group, on floor 6e of the huge EP building. Thanks to this 4-6 minutes long show, which airs new episodes every other week, everyone can familiarize themselves with her work in the European Parliament. The show is published in English (most of the events inside of the European Parliament are in English), but subtitles are available. the idea of documenting the parliamen- tary work may not be brand new, but the THE HEAD OF THE THE COMMUNICATIONS BOSS AMELIA ANDERSDOTTER OFFICE MATTIAS BJARNEMALM¨ FRENCHMAN JULIEN BENCZE EXPERT ULF PETTERSSON OFFICER TESS LINDHOLM concept of a continuing, free and openly watch exile6e here: SWEDISH WEBSITE STAGIAIRES, BRUSSELS STAGIAIRE, STRASBOURG licensed web series certainly is. # LIAISON OFFICER NILS AGNESSON DEVELOPER ANDERS JENSEN-URSTAD SPRING 2012 EDVINAS PAUZA / SPRING 2012 SANDRA ARVIDSSON www.ameliaandersdotter.eu/video STAGIAIRE, BRUSSELS STAGIAIRE, BRUSSELS STAGIAIRES, BRUSSELS FALL 2012 CRISTIAN BULUMAC FALL 2012 /SPRING 2013 FELIPE GONZALEZ` SANTOS SPRING 2013 ALEXANDER ANDERSSON /CLAUDIA MARGINEAN STAGIAIRE, STRASBOURG STAGIAIRE, BRUSSELS FALL 2012 /SPRING 2013 VALERIE` MAUNOURY FALL 2013 JOHAN LARSSON From left to right: Mattias Bjärnemalm (“Head of Office”), Amelia 26 Andersdotter (“the Boss”), Julien Bencze (“the Frenchman”)27 and Ulf Pettersson (“the Expert”). Poster by Tess Lindholm.

On tour in . Ame- lia has become a sought-after speaker holding opening speeches at events such as the Internet Gov- ernance Forum.

Speaking up Writing it like it is Some of Amelia’s speeches, panels and conferences 2012-13 A selection of debate articles 2012-13

Bucerius Law School IP Conference on ACTA. Key- Vetenskapsfestivalen 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden. Sverige blockerar utvecklingen inom öppen data? Undantag ska skydda journalistiskt arbete note on the ongoing work with ACTA in the European Amelia gave a speech on the ongoing data protection DIK, 2012-05-15 Publikt, 2013-03-05 Parliament. May 18, 2012. reforms in the EU. April 27, 2013. Inte lyckat att skapa dubbelarbete Banker fiskar fel - politikerna nappar? Bokmässan 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden. September Copyright in Crisis at London School of Economics , 2012-07-05 Upsala Nya Tidning, 2013-03-20 2012. and Political Science, London, UK. Speech on reform opportunities in copyright. May 9, 2013. Populism hotar säkerheten i cyberrymden Vems säkerhet är det som ska värnas? Internet governance forum 2013, Baku, Azerbaijan. Ny Teknik, 2012-07-23 NyTeknik, 2013-04-13 Opening speech about the freedom of the internet. E-id debatt, Europahuset, Stockholm, Sweden. May Amelia expressed her support for internet users who 2013. Kan kallprat vid köksbord bli straffrättslig angelägen- Fel argumentation om EU:s nya datalag want to share information and in doing so help the het? Kollega, 2012-09-12 Dagens Nyheter, 2013-04-17 cultural improvement of the society. November 2012. German Pirate Party General Assembly 2013, Ger- many. Speech about the future of European policy and Varför är inte privat dataintegritet viktig? Privatlivet viktigare än reklam FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, Belgium: Keynote “The Devil the pirate movement. May 2013. VästerbottensKuriren, 2012-12-13 Computer Sweden, 2013-04-25 is in the Details” about free software and policy in the European Union. February 2, 2013. Almedalen 2013, Gotland, Sweden. Amelia participat- Debatt: Hur ser regeringen på EU:s dataskydd? Liberaler försöker inte ens värna integriteten ed in several panels on data protection. July 2013. Dagens Industri, 2013-01-28 , 2013-05-27

Hälsa och , Utrikespolitiska föreningen, Slutreplik: Wikström blundar för hur USA-lob Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. Lecture and discus- PLASK13, Vingåker, Sweden. Speech at the start-up Hedhs linje en fara för våra rättigheter byn jobbat, Svenska Dagbladet, 2013-05-29 sion on pharmaceutical patents and health policy. meeting for of Europe. August 2013. Barometern, 2013-02-19 February 2013. Offentlighetens utmaningar Slutreplik: Privatlivet ska skyddas mer – inte mindre Helsingborgs Dagblad, 2013-07-31 General Assembly 2013, Plzen, Barometern, 2013-03-01 Open Source Days 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark. . Amelia spoke about the EU, the Pirate Apotek utan offentlig insyn Speech on the future of European policy for informa- vision for the future and expressed her support before Svenska EU-politiker vill avskaffa personuppgiftsskyd- tion spaces. March 10, 2013. the upcoming elections. September 2013. Vestmanlands Läns Tidning, 2013-08-01 det, Europaportalen, 2013-02-20 Fel väg förbjuda fotografering Cyber Dialogue Conference, Toronto, Canada. American Surveillance debate, Europahuset, Stock- Ta privatliv och integritet på allvar Publikt, 2013-08-20 Expert panel discussion about internet security. March holm, Sweden. September 2013. Nya Wermlands Tidningen, 2013-02-25 2013. Bokmässan 2013. Amelia spoke about data protection, Utred straffansvar vid missbruk av övervakning Akut brist på visioner i EU:s långtidsbudget Göteborgs-Posten, 2013-08-29 Swedish Young Pirates General Assembly, Uppsala. eID and security in the EU. September 2013. (joint article), , 2013-02-26 April 2013. Godtyckligt regelverk hotar friheten på nätet Databaser med personuppgifter måste begränsas Open Access conference, Oxford, UK. Amelia spoke Dagens Nyheter, 2013-09-03 Svenska Dagbladet, 2013-02-28 Slutreplik: Utfästelser räcker inte about current processes that enable, or don’t enable, ““I hope to change the world. This is what Dagens Nyheter, 2013-09-16 open access to science. April 2013. I strive to accomplish with every talk. 28 29

Laying out the To what extent should argument. With technology be allowed to few exeptions, limit our rights? Amelia writes her own speeches.

Fighting on many fronts Special campaigns and initiatives

Open Letters dd.net spreads awareness about data mining No to DRM in HTML5 decisions that could prevent or side-track Letter to Commissioner Barroso on Copy- and the misuse of personal data of people political decisions in this area in the near in Sweden as well as in the wider European Speech before a European Commission future, before those decisions are made. right reform Union. Dataskydd.net was created by Amelia Amelia believes that democratic representa- in the winter of 2012. expert group, and more tives need to make what are in fact political With this open letter, written by Amelia and one of the the goals of the Dataskydd decisions about users rights on the internet. co-signed by MEPs from all major political To defend the open internet, Amelia has project is to shed light on large Secondly, in the EU, our legislative groups in the EP, Amelia urged Manuel worked towards stopping an effort by some that mine citizens personal information and framework provides an additional challenge Barroso, President of the European Commis- big tech companies to introduce retrictive sell it on for profit to any willing buyer. for the Encrypted Media Extensions as sion, to take action and reform the founda- DRM technology to the language of the web, proposed by Netflix and . Netflix is tional European copyright laws. HTML. More or less, this is a special inter- a streaming company, and is as such in- ENSURING Democratic input vention Amelia made to a standardization terested in controlling re-transmissions of Letter to Commissioner Barnier on Internet committee at the European Commission on When The European Commission is consider- the issue: streams. However, European jurisprudence notice and action ing new legislation they often try to inform there are many reasons why DRM in grants specific rights for users and con- themselves by consultations with interested HTML is a bad idea, but two relevant legal sumers of broadcasts in cross-border trade In this open letter Amelia called on European parties and stakeholders. Some consulta- obstacles deserve to be pointed out. For the between member states. These rights are Commissioner Michel Barnier to include the tions are held online and are nominally open European Union, there are legislative rea- codified in for example, the Premier League European Parliament, the voice of Europe´s to ‘the public’. However, in reality, these sons as to why DRM in HTML does not work vs. Murphy cases on the retransmission citizens, in the shaping of new rules on how consultations are dominated by industry. To out at this time. of content. Any technical standard which information may be taken of the internet. make it easier for regular citizens to present Firstly, in practice, DRM sets up re- implements obstacles to retransmission at As formulated by Amelia, the initiative has their perspective to the Commission Amelia strictions to the rights granted by copyright the infrastructural level should at least take gained support from over 20 other members took the initiative to write citizen guides on and freedom of expression laws. Thus, the these rights into account. of Parliament, from conservatives to social- how to find and answer some of the consul- standardization of DRM in HTML will pre- ists. tations. So far, two guides have been pro- empt upcoming revisions to European Union duced: copyright law. The European Commission Dataskydd.net • IPRED Consultation guide has announced its intention to reform the copyright legislation over the coming years. • Trade Secrets Consultation guide Dataskydd.net is a website concerning the It would be inappropriate for a standards issue of personal data protection. Datasky- consortium run by private actors to make

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In the maze of EU vocabulary, it is easy to get lost.

List of terms Awards and recognitions Those eurocrats sure makes things complicated, let us help out

We think these are cool, and that you should know about it • Amendment a proposal for a change to any • Parliament is short for European Parlia- text, for instance a report or an opinion ment

• The Worlds 10 most important internet activists 2012 • CC abbreviation for the Creative Commons, • Rapporteur a member of the European Par- DailyDot a free and open licensing system liament who is responsible for writing and coordinating a report. The rapporteur acts • Nomination to the MEP awards 2012 • Commission is a short for the European on behalf of his or her political group MEP Magazine Commission, the arch-bureaucrats and technocrats who come up with every new • Regulation a European Union legal text • Pirate politician of the year which acts as a direct law in all member Piratgalan 2012 law in the EU states • Committee is a formal group within the Eu- ropean Parliament that work with a specific • Report, also called dossier or file, is either set of topics a proposal for a legislative act or, more or less, a statement by the Parliament. It can • Council is short for the European Council, be influenced by opinions. All legislative re- the body representing the EU member state ports originally come from the Commission governments Amelia’s team • S+D short for Socialists and democrats, the • Directive a European Union legal text which political group for social democrats may implemented with some flexibility • Shadow is short for shadow rapporteur: Like every Member of the European Parlia- Previous interns • EP abbreviation for the European Parlia- when a certain MEP is given a report and ment, Amelia needs some help to assist her • Asta Helgadottir, Elin Andersson, Felipe ment thus made a rapporteur from one political with the parliamentary workload. Gonzalez-Santos, Valerie Maunoury, Cris- group, other political groups present their tian Bulumac, Edvinas Pauza and Julia Reda • EPP abbreviation for the European Peoples Party, the political grouping for conserva- own shadow rapporteurs to follow the same In Brussels tives and Christian democrats issue • Mattias Bjärnemalm, Julien Bencze and Ulf • Greens short for Greens / EFA, the politi- • Strasbourg session when the Parliament is Pettersson cal grouping for green parties and pirate in a plenary voting period in Strasbourg in In Sweden parties France • Nils Agnesson and Tess Lindholm • MEP abbreviation for Member of European • Trialogue informal consultations by the Parliament Commission, Parliament and Council trying Current interns to agree on the text of report • Opinion a text with proposals for greater or • Jan Loucek and Galia Mancheva lesser changes issued by one committee of the Parliament to the report of another committee

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