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In 2019, Reda became a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.[3] In 2020, he began working for the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF, 'Society for Civil Rights'), as expert for copyright and freedom of communication.[4][5]
Political career
Reda became a member of the centre-leftSocial Democratic Party of Germany when he was 16 years old.[6] He 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 he was chairperson of the Young Pirates (Junge Piraten). In 2013, he was one of the co-founders of the Young Pirates of Europe. In January 2014, he was chosen to top the list of the candidates for the European Elections for the Pirate Party Germany, who subsequently won one seat.[7]
On 27 March 2019, he announced in an online video that he had left the Pirate Party, protesting the fact that his former employee Gilles Bordelais had been admitted as a candidate in the European elections while being under investigation for sexual harassment.[10][4]
Copyright reform
In 2014, Reda said that copyright reform would be his focus for the legislative term.[11]
In November 2014, Reda was named rapporteur of the Parliament's review of 2001's Copyright Directive.[12] His draft report[13] recommended the EU-wide harmonisation of copyright exceptions, a reduction in term length, broad exceptions for educational purposes[14] and a strengthening of authors' negotiating position in relation to publishers, among other measures.[15]
Stakeholder reaction varied as the German artist coalition Initiative Urheberrecht generally welcomed the draft[16] while the French collecting societySACD said it was "unacceptable";[17] author and copyright activist Cory Doctorow called the proposals "amazingly sensible",[18] while former Swedish Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter criticised them as too conservative.[19]
In 2015, Reda's report was passed by the legal affairs committee, but with an amendment that recommended restricting freedom of panorama in Europe.[20] Reda strongly opposed this amendment and campaigned against it.[21] The amendment was later voted down by the plenary of the European Parliament.[22]
In 2019, Reda was described as a leader in the protests against Article 13 (colloquially called the "upload filter" provision) of the proposed EU Copyright Directive, in which 100,000 people participated in street demonstrations on March 23, 2019.[23]
Personal life
On 26 January 2022, Reda announced that he is transgender and now uses the first name Felix.[4][24]
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