Hi Henning,
Thank you so much for attending and for posting to this list! It is highly
appreciated.
In the long-term it will be extremely helpful for our image to be regularly
present at such events and the only way to achieve a very wide coverage is
through a network of volunteers across countries and continents.
Cheers,
Dimi
2017-03-27 20:54 GMT+02:00 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net>et>:
Hi,
I attended a Munich conference on platforms and intermediaries in
copyright law last week on Thursday and Friday <http://www.platforms.jura.
uni-muenchen.de/index.html>, slides and other material will be published
at <http://www.zr11.jura.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/index.html> The
conference was organized by the Munich University in close connection with
the Munich IP law center, the MPI and some GRUR people. Attendands came
from many European member states, the US and Japan. Both the Commission and
some national Governments for the Council were present.
The (in)official purpose of the conference was to get academics and
practitioners from many fields together in preparation of the upcoming EU
directive on the Digital Single Market. We talked about Art. 11 and 13.
If you are concerned about Art 11, the neighboring right for publishers,
you all can sleep softer, Art. 11 is dead. Not a single person out of
almost 200 attending the conference defended it in a straw poll, besides of
course the representative of the commission and the NL ministery (on behalf
of the council).
Art. 13 is the big elephant. I talked to a representative of the
Commission and a high level lawyer with the NL ministry of security and
justice (which has the lead on the subject matter for the council). Both
assured me that they are aware of Wikipedia and want to keep us completely
out of this regulation. They confirmed my concern that the draft wording of
Art 13 is ambiguous and might cover Wikipedia as it is. So the movement
needs to check in with all contacts and bring this matter to their
attention until this is resolved! I presented both of them with the small
Wikipedia pin.
And if someone from Germany or on the Union level has any contact to GRUR,
it would be useful to brush that up, as they will be heavily involved in
the further process. There will be a GRUR conference on the Digital Single
Market directive in Brussels on June 12. I believe WikiMedia should be
present with someone who can be convincing at a law conference. Show
yourselves and make everyone aware that Art. 13 is of concern to us and the
wording needs to be changed, and soon.
BTW: Everyone was really happy about seeing me, they appreciate Wikipedia
to attend such events. That we become visible and participate in
discussions on ongoing issues. Please keep that in mind for further events.
And bring pins. Everyone loves them.
Henning Schlottmann, Munich
([[User:H-stt]], admin on deWP and Commons)
_______________________________________________
Publicpolicy mailing list
Publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy