Relevant for some recent discussions here (UNESCO OER) but also EU and USA copyright, events in Canada, WIPO.
Federico
-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Newsletter JUNE Data: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:09:50 +0000 Mittente: Communia education@communia-association.org
Newsletter JUNE
Copyright for Education
*Dear Copyright For Education Community!*
The long-awaited moment has finally come. The EP JURI Committee vote will take place on 20 June at 10:00 CEST. For this reason we were working hard last month. We were in Brussels at a meeting with MEP Geringer, we set up a new website for the Copyright For Education project and we prepared a communication plan around voting in JURI. Thanks to everyone who took part in these activities, for your contribution, support and nice words. It's a pleasure to work with you!
*Meeting with MEP Geringer *
Followed by the EUROCLIO meeting with Voss, we reached out to MEP Geringer. Here is a short report from Alek Tarkowski (Centrum Cyfrowe, Communia), who met with MEP Geringer to discuss educational exception in the DSM Copyright Directive.
/“On 24th May, Anna Mazgal from Wikimedia and I met MEP Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg. She plays an important role in the ongoing copyright reform process, as she’s the Shadow Rapporteur on the Directive, on behalf of the S&D group. During the meeting, we presented to her our concerns, regarding both art. 4 and other articles that are of interest to the educational community. MEP Geringer has a good grasp of these issues, and to a large extent shares our position. She promised to fight against any last-moment changes that could be adverse to educators, and was in particular interested in the issue of possible compulsory remuneration (which fortunately for now is gone from the proposals that are on the table).”/
*Launched: copyrightforeducation.eu*
Last week, our new copyrightforeducation.eu website was launched. Its aim is to draw the attention and influence european legislators in creating a better copyright law for education. We believe in policy decisions that are based on evidence, thus you will find there all the studies that we have been conducting in the past years on the issues of copyright and education. An important element of this website is thecontribution of our community. Teachers, educators, activists, who in recent years have supported our efforts are saying, why they need a better copyright reform for education. You can show everyone you are part of our community for a better copyright by sharing your logo with us (education@communia-association.org). We will then put it on the website.
*Social media campaign before JURI vote *
We have created a social media campaign that we are promoting on Twitter and Facebook. The campaign is based on photos of teachers, educators and activists from our community who are talking about why copyright reform should support education. You will see familiar faces on Communia social media accounts:
https://www.facebook.com/communia/ https://twitter.com/communia_eu
You can help convince the members of the JURI committee to vote for a better copyright exception for education by sharing, liking and retweeting the images. If you would like the media directly, please mail us and we will share them with you.
*Policy letter to JURi committee members*
On Thursday we sent a policy letter to all members of the JURI committee asking for a better copyright for education. We hope this will help the committee members remember what is at stake for education in this vote, and that they will support an open, broad and flexible exception. Highlight of the letter: “We ask you to support a mandatory exception that is the same in each country, for non-commercial education that facilitates cross-border sharing, without any licenses or compulsory remuneration attached by force of law.”
The full text of the letter is availablehere. https://www.communia-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Communia-let...
*Copyright For Education Community on UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources 2018*
Thanks to the contribution from members our community we have submitted joint comment on UNESCO Recommendation on OER. It was signed by 11 organizations - EUROCLIO, LLLP, The Media and Learning Association, SPARC Europe, The Open Education Working Group from Open Knowledge International, KlasCement.net – Educational Resources Network, Communia Association, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU, Wikimedia Deutschland, EDUin, Aliance pro otevřené vzdělávání. In our comments we focus on issues concerning copyright reform and educational exception as we think they are crucial to support the creation of high-quality OERs.
*SCCR/36: educational and research exceptions*
The 36th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) took place in Geneva from 28 May to 1 June 2018. Communia and IFLA were there to advocate for better exceptions and limitations to copyright for education and research. As Ariadna Matas (IFLA) wrote in her report from the meeting “One of the main outcomes of SCCR36 is that libraries, archives and museums will remain on the agenda for SCCR at least through 2019, with the next meeting taking place in six months’ time, around November 2018.” You can also read Communia statement made by Teresa Nobre here
https://www.communia-association.org/2018/05/31/sccr-36-communia-statement-e...
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News
In US a few music rights holders are pushing for an additional handout to protect musical recordings created before 1972. The bill is called the Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service, and Important Contributions to Society Act (or CLASSICS Act) and would prevent pre-1972 sound recordings from entering the public domain until 2067. Read more https://www.wired.com/story/congress-latest-move-to-extend-copyright-protection-is-misguided/
*Upcoming events*
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Today, the Digital Republic Bulgaria foundation is organizing in Sofia a round table on Access to Knowledge. We are taking part in it to discuss both copyright reform for education and open licensing models.
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22-24 June - The International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) http://epress.utsc.utoronto.ca/elpub2018/ will take place in Toronto
Who are we
COMMUNIA is an European organisation that advocates for policies that increase access to and reuse of culture and knowledge. Because we noticed that education did not have an influential voice in the debate around the copyright reform, COMMUNIA started ‘Copyright reform for Education’: a project that focusses solely on making copyright better for education.
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