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[Advocacy Advisors] Digital civil rights events in Europe in 2013
by Stephen LaPorte 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Hello all, The EDRI-gram this week (http://www.edri.org/edrigram) has an interesting list of digital civil rights events in Europe in 2013: 27-30 December 2012, Hamburg, Germany 29C3 - Chaos Communication Congress http://events.ccc.de/category/29c3/ 20-23 January 2013, Brussels, Belgium The Power of Information - How Science and Technology can Make a Difference http://www.ThePowerofInformation.eu 23-25 January 2013, Brussels, Belgium CPDP 2013 Conference - Reloading data protection http://www.cpdpconferences.org 2-3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2013/ 14-15 February 2013, Vienna, Austria Internet 2013 - Shaping policies to advance media freedom http://www.osce.org/event/internet2013 22 February 2013, Warsaw, Poland ePSIplatform Conference: "Gotcha! Getting everyone on board" http://epsiplatform.eu/content/save-date-22-february-2013-epsiplatform-conf… 21-22 March 2013, Malta Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future http://www.onlineprivacyconference.eu/ 6-8 May 2013, Berlin, Germany re:publica 2013 http://www.re-publica.de 6-7 June 2012, Lisbon, Portugal EuroDIG 2013 Proposals by 31 December 2012 http://www.eurodig.org/important/call-for-issues-and-proposals 25-26 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain 9th International Conference on Internet Law & Politics: Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities. http://edcp.uoc.edu/symposia/idp2013/?lang=en 31 July – 4 August 2013, Geestmerambacht, Netherlands Observe. Hack. Make. - OHM2013 https://ohm2013.org/ 24-27 September 2013, Warsaw, Poland Public Voice Conference 2013 35th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners conference http://www.giodo.gov.pl/ -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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[Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama
by Stephen LaPorte 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

[Was: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use] Hello Pine, A number of possible freedom of panorama initiatives are being discussed here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama_campaignThese proposals are not being led by the WMF itself because there are strict regulations on how a tax-exempt nonprofit organization may engage in legislative activism. The Wikimedia community has many creative ideas. Here are the proposals under discussion on Commons: * Write a convincing rationale for why FoP is a good thing * Petition * US chapters lobby Congress * Set-up an umbrella lobbying organization * Geotargeted CentralNotice banner * Identify allies (was: "Talk to Google") * Identify educational audience for these photos * Sample offline Wikipedias with Kiwix offline reader that need photos * Summary FoP law table * Proposed wording * Short and long term goals * Baby step: state-level arts grants * Identify violations * Throw our toys out of the pram * Lead by example * Guerilla art campaign Which do you think would be the most effective? Best, Stephen On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Good! > > To the WMF folks, is WMF doing any advocacy of its own regarding FOP in > the US? > > Pine > -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*

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Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama
by Romaine Wiki 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

Hello, We really miss in this list: * EU chapters lobby European Parliament On my way home from a Creative Commons meeting recently, I spoke with someone from Google. That person is active in Brussels to lobby for their interest. We really miss an office in Brussels. And concerning FoP, we are currently working on founding a chapter in Belgium, and one of its goals is getting FoP in Belgium. Also Wikimedia France is very active that subject. Greetings from Europe, Romaine > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:21:12 -0800 > From: Stephen LaPorte <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA > <advocacy_advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama > Message-ID: > <CABMv6ma6caT=j5XvH+PAXNv9m0KTqoDKh1T1XLADyGq_GKLpOg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > [Was: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to > Release its > images under a free license for public use] > > Hello Pine, > > A number of possible freedom of panorama initiatives are > being discussed > here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama_campaignThese > proposals are not being led by the WMF itself because there > are > strict regulations on how a tax-exempt nonprofit > organization may engage in > legislative activism. > > The Wikimedia community has many creative ideas. Here are > the proposals > under discussion on Commons: > > * Write a convincing rationale for why FoP is a good thing > * Petition > * US chapters lobby Congress > * Set-up an umbrella lobbying organization > * Geotargeted CentralNotice banner > * Identify allies (was: "Talk to Google") > * Identify educational audience for these photos > * Sample offline Wikipedias with Kiwix offline reader that > need photos > * Summary FoP law table > * Proposed wording > * Short and long term goals > * Baby step: state-level arts grants > * Identify violations > * Throw our toys out of the pram > * Lead by example > * Guerilla art campaign > > Which do you think would be the most effective? > > Best, > Stephen > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Good! > > > > To the WMF folks, is WMF doing any advocacy of its own > regarding FOP in > > the US? > > > > Pine > > > > -- > Stephen LaPorte > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the > Wikimedia > Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or > serve as a lawyer > for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their > personal > capacity.* (...)

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[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
by Itzik Edri 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

cross-posting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tomer Ashur <tomerashur(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions: 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant office) 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike) 3. No derivative work. 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial use is allowed, unless otherwise specified). Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus making the bill itself, redundant. Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in modern world. On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm still terribly excited of these news. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private email, Tomer Ashur Chairman Wikimedia Israel [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l

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[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: "Official Works" legislation initiatives
by Mathias Schindler 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

Greetings, a while ago, Wikimedia Israel triggered legislative efforts regarding the licencing of state works (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_text_copyright for international implementations). >From what I heard from WMIL, the issue went back and forth in committees and indeed copyright law was changed. Official works remain subject to copyright but non-commercial usage is permitted with a few more restrictions. Here is my question to you: Are there other chapters with similar involvement in national copyright debates, especially when it comes to Official Works, Public Sector Information, etc.? Feel free to reply on the mailing lists or directly to mathias.schindler(a)wikimedia.de Pointers to blogs, briefs, laws, parliament databases are very much appreciated. Mathias -- Mathias Schindler Projektmanager Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. web: http://www.wikimedia.de mail: mathias.schindler(a)wikimedia.de jabber: mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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[Advocacy Advisors] EU to tackle copyright reform
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hello all, Yesterday the commission published the long expected press release (attached) announcing the launch of stakeholder dialogue to reform copyright legislation. The plan is to have discussions and positions reviewed and exchanged in 2013 and adopt new legislation in 2014. There will be three commissioners working jointly on this project: Michel Barnier (Internal Market) Neelie Kroes (Digital) Androulla Vassiliou (Culture) I am today invited to a discussion with Michael Barnier and some MEPs from the European People's Party (I am currently training in interest representation in Brussels, but I am also a member of Wikimedia Austria since I studied in Vienna). I will try to keep an eye on everything that is going on in Brussels regarding these reform plans as I believe we (Wikimedia) should be part of the dialogue. I am also proposing to WMAT to register in the EU Transparency Register so we can get easier access to first hand information and invitation to join discussions and meet with decision makers. WMDE and WMI are already registered, but have nobody in Brussels. A report on today's discussion to come. A more interesting year to follow. Regards, Dimi

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