Hi all,
I am really glad to announce that Communia (the European association
uniting Wikimedia, Creative Commons, OKFN et al.) has today released
<https://www.communia-association.org/2019/12/02/guidelines-implementation-dsm-directive/>its
guidelines for the implementation of the DSM (a.k.a. Copyright) Directive.
These guidelines are intended to be of help to local advocates and national
policy makers while transposing the directive into national law. The
overall policy stance it to exand and strengthen user rights and access to
cultural heritage, even beyond what is strictly adopted within the European
law. They are part of a wider implementation project by COMMUNIA and its
members Centrum Cyfrowe <https://centrumcyfrowe.pl/> and Wikimedia
<https://www.wikimedia.org/> to make sure that local communities in as many
countries as possible participate in their national copyright reforms.
Even better, we partnered with LIBER <https://libereurope.eu/> (Articles 3
and 4), IFLA <https://www.ifla.org/> (Article 6) and Europeana
<https://pro.europeana.eu/> (Articles 8 to 11) to create these guidelines.
Numerous experts were involved in the tedious process of interpreting the
Copyright Directive and providing guidance on how to shape national rules
in a way that benefits users and the public interest. It was not always
easy to make sense of this piece of legislation. So, we are very thankful
for all their time and patience.
Please:
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Read the guidelines here
<https://www.notion.so/Guidelines-for-the-Implementation-of-the-DSM-Directive-45233be9c0e143338860ae5a03118bf3>
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Send us feedback: We are very much seeing these guidelines as living
documents that can be improved based on feedback or external developments
in the implementation process. You can send your feedback via email to
transposition(a)communia-association.org or by commenting directly on the
wiki-style platform “notion” that we are using to publish the guidelines
(you need to be logged into notion and you can make a free account here:
https://www.notion.so/login).
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Endorse the entire guidelines or individual guides: if you are part of
an organization that would like to endorse the guidelines, send us an email
transposition(a)communia-association.org
NB: Notion was chosen instead of one of our wikis because of the improved
UI/usability and design. And, frankly, we wanted to test another service
based on Wiki software in order to be able to compare.
Cheers,
Dimi