Hello everyone,

Just in case an email I sent earlier did not go through because of a pdf attachment that was too large I have sent this one as well.

Last week Friday Wikimedia South Africa made a written submission to the parliament of South Africa urging that a Freedom of Panorama clause be included in any new version of the South African Copyright Act.  We are hoping to give an oral testimony before parliament so as to explain why such a clause should be included into the act.

You can also see the submission on commons at the link here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ZA_submission_to_the_Parliementory_comittee_on_Trade_and_Industry_-_7_July_2017.pdf

Both the Wikimedia ZA board as well as the broader editing community in South Africa voted unanimously to for us to advocate for Freedom of Panama in South Africa.  In support of this effort we also ran a banner campaign (see landing page here) on Wikipedia in South Africa which collected 720 petition signatures.

Hopefully we will be given a chance to present to Parliament in early August on the matter just before this year's Wikimania in Canada.

Regards,

Douglas.

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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype:  douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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