Hi all,
Unfortunately the result was no good.
Articles 11 (neighbouring right for press publications) and 13 (platform
liability) were carried in full as per EPP proposals.
The Freedom of Panorama and User-Generated Content exceptions didn't make
it.
The final mandate was adopted 438 votes in favor, 226 against and 39
abstentions.
The Parliament will now start the negotiations with the Council (trilogue)
based on this mandate. There we can work on "safeguarding the public
domain" and keeping the carve-out for non-for-profit platforms like ours
(which is both in the Parliament and in the Council position).
There will be a final vote in the parliament plenary after the trilogue on
the the adoption of the final trilogue result. We cannot currently predict
a timeline for when this final plenary vote will be, but this will take
months.
Thank you everyone for the efforts, help and support. Despite the bad news
you were great and against terrible odds we got the small improvements on
public domain and carve-outs that wouldn't have happened without all of
you. We need to remember that these are not our decisions to take in the
end and the best we can do is inform and convince, which we did as best as
we could.
Anna & Dimi
Hello everyone,
The hours are ticking down until this Wednesday’s vote on the EU Copyright
Reform, and everything you do to reach out to the MEPs counts! There are
positive amendments for free knowledge on the table, and some troubling
ones, too. With less than two days until MEPs vote on amendments to the EU
Commission’s proposal -- we are making our final push to encourage
engagement on the troubling issue of pre-filtering and promising amendments
on public domain safeguards, freedom of panorama, user-generated content
exceptions, and a broader exception for text and data mining. We know that
you all care about all of those things. Please support this campaign!
We have just published a new blog post
<https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/time-is-running-…>
outlining Wikimedia’s analysis of the tabled amendments, as well as
specific amendments we would like the community to support. The best way to
support these is to visit and share fixcopyright.wikimedia.org and
encourage everyone to contact their MEPs.
This is our chance to show that our community is made up of diverse voices
all joining together to make a difference. Please help us to make sure that
your voice and others’ are heard!
Best,
Jan
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Jan Gerlach
Sr. Public Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org
@pd_w <https://twitter.com/pd_w>
@wikimediapolicy <https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy>
Dear All,
we have been working on the landing page for our community we can link
to. We have now created one: https://fixcopyright.wikimedia.org/ and
working on all possible language versions -*if you can help with the
translations please get in touch*. Not much text to work on!
The great feature of it is that it allows for a more randomised and
personalized messages to be sent to our MEPs so that it allows people to
make it theirs but does not require them to write everything from
scratch. Please spread the word in your communities, tweet and post
about it, with the #fixcopyright mention. Anybody can use the tool to
write assorted MEPs about the issues they care about.
We are also finishing work on the more inside-community information why
all this is important, which we will share too very soon. Bear with us!
Cheers,
Anna
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Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia
anna(a)wikimedia.be
@a2na
mobile: +32 487 222 945
51 Rue du Trône
BE-1050 Brussels
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are well 6 days before the copyright vote. We just had a
Parliamentary Breakfast with Jimmy Wales and Axel Voss so the day
started well! :)
Besides activities in Brussels we are working jointly and across oceans
to unify and amplify our messaging. We also hope this can be of use to
you. Also now is the time to communicate what we stand for in various
European languages. So:
*SHARING the messages:*
A statement by our María Sefidari Huici is now published on Medium in 3
languages. Please share the version that is closest to your heart and
don't hesitate to further use and translate excerpts of it (or all of it
if that would be useful)
English:
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/your-internet-is…
Spanish:
https://medium.com/@Wikimedia/tu-internet-est%C3%A1-bajo-amenaza-b60dd53af77
French:
https://medium.com/@Wikimedia/votre-internet-est-en-danger-f69d490e35fd
Please use #*FixCopyright *for all social media posts, so we can
continue to amplify.
*SPREADING the news:*
Are you publishing anything on your side, either via the press, online
media, blogs? Please send links our way with a one-liner about the
contents if it is not in English, French or German. We will share, post,
and gather this. Let us know if there is anything you may need,
headlines, quotes, etc.
Best wishes,
Anna
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Anna Mazgal
EU Policy Advisor
Wikimedia
anna(a)wikimedia.be
@a2na
mobile: +32 487 222 945
51 Rue du Trône
BE-1050 Brussels