Nationality German Name Julia Reda Education University of Mainz | Alma mater University of Mainz Party Pirate Party Germany Siblings Sandra Reda | |
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Born 30 November 1986 (age 37)
Bonn, Germany ( 1986-11-30 ) Role Member of the European Parliament Office Member of the European Parliament since 2014 Profiles | ||
Political party Pirate Party Germany | ||
Euhackathon 2014 julia reda member of the european parliament
Julia Reda (born 30 November 1986 in Bonn, Germany) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of the Pirate Party Germany, part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. She has been Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group since 2014. She is also the president of the Young Pirates of Europe.
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- Euhackathon 2014 julia reda member of the european parliament
- Global igf 2015 julia reda on future in a nutshell
- Political career
- Copyright reform
- References
Global igf 2015 julia reda on future in a nutshell
Political career
Reda became a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany when she was 16 years old. She studied politics and publicity sciences at the University of Mainz. 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. She is on the Steering Committee of the Digital Agenda intergroup, a forum of MEPs interested in digital issues.
Copyright reform
She has declared to make copyright reform her focus for the legislative term.
In November 2014, Reda was named rapporteur of the Parliament's review of 2001's Copyright Directive. Her draft report recommended the EU-wide harmonisation of copyright exceptions, a reduction in term length, broad exceptions for educational purposes and a strengthening of authors' negotiating position in relation to publishers, among other measures.
Stakeholder reaction varied: the German artist coalition Initiative Urheberrecht generally welcomed the draft, while the French collecting society SACD said it was "unacceptable"; author and copyright activist Cory Doctorow called the proposals "amazingly sensible", while former Swedish Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter criticised them as too conservative.
In 2015, Reda's report was passed by the legal affairs committee, but with an amendment that recommended restricting freedom of panorama in Europe. Reda strongly opposed this amendment and campaigned against it. The amendment was later voted down by the plenary of the European Parliament.