This is really great and looking forward to some positive outcome.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Felix Nartey
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:12 PM, john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Best of luck Douglas, if there's anything people
outside of SA can do to
help please let us know. I'll share it with a few photograph Facebook
groups I\m part of, I'm sure a few people will be from SA in them.
Thanks
John
On 10 July 2017 at 11:57, Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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_s
ubmission_to_the_Parliementory_comittee_on_Trade_and_Industr
y_-_7_July_2017.pdf
Both the Wikimedia ZA board
<http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board_Meeting_12_December_2016> as well as
the broader editing community
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_Africa#Copyright_Act_amendment>
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
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA>) on
Wikipedia in South Africa which collected 720 petition signatures
<https://www.change.org/p/ahermans-parliament-gov-za-freedom-of-panorama-in-south-africa>
.
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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