Dear Public Policy wikifolk,
As some of you may be aware, I've been working with Jessica Coates (cc'd) -
of the Australian Digital Alliance(ADA) - formerly from Creative Commons
international - on a Wikimedia advocacy campaign in Australia with regards
to the possibility that Fair Use legislation could be introduced into the
Australian Copyright Act. This has been recommended many times before by
various government enquiries, and the Library and Education sectors of
Australia have long hoped for its introduction. Our current system - known
as Fair Dealing - is extremely limiting and prescriptive, which is why it
was illegal, for example, to use a personal VCR recorder in Australia until
2006, just to take one example...
Having sought and received confirmation from WMF-Legal that the proposal is
technically and legally allowable, and also received confirmation from the
ADA that their staff/communications/documentation resources would be
available to do the 'heavy lifting' in terms of public communications, I
have been running this straw poll/consultation with the Australian,
english-Wikipedia community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_bo…
You can see there the details of the proposed advocacy campaign on-wiki,
and also the background details of why this legal issue is relevant right
now in the Australian political landscape.
In short - I'm proposing to run banners on en.wp to logged out users in the
Australian-IP range who are viewing WP articles which include a Fair Use
image (e.g. corporate logo, album cover, film title card...), which will
point them to a landing page [probably on meta] explaining what Fair Use in
Australia would mean in practice, and why it's not nearly as scary as the
Copyright Lobby would have them believe. It can then point people to
further resources on the ADA website, ask them to contact their local
politician on the matter etc. [I do NOT intend for wikimedians to be
collecting a petition]. In this regard it is rather similar to the FoP
advocacy campaign run in Europe.
here's some local political context:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/productivity-commission-to-say-fair-use-could…
and here's a video that ADA produced a couple of years ago for their
previous lobbying campaign in this topic (which was pitched to an audience
of online-creative industry in general)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACreationistas_-_Aust…
And here's the actual government enquiry report which is currently sitting
in front of the politicans waiting for a formal reply:
http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property/report
As you can see at the Straw Poll/Consultation page the comments so far are
heavily (though not unanimously) in favour of running this advocacy
campaign on-wiki. It has been advertised through watchlist notifications in
the Australian IP range, emails to the Australian-chapter mailing list, as
well as talkpage notices to the 1700 people in the category:Australian
Wikipedians.
So, as people involved in wikimedia/open-access advocacy in general, you're
welcome to comment on that page yourselves (though - do please indicate if
you're actually going to be affected by this proposal, since it's only
going to be visible in Australia). Equally - I'd love your feedback and
help in designing the banner and landing page (on meta?) IF the
consultation is eventually closed as demonstrating confirmed
relevant-community consensus to support. Obviously there's a Communications
side of this as well.
Sincerely,
Liam / Wittylama
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata
Hi all,
As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members
must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation
activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to
create a single point of entry. We call it the Wikimedia Resource Center,
and its alpha version is now live on Meta Wikimedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more programmatic
activities every year, newer Wikimedians are faced with lack of experience
in the movement and its various channels for requesting support. In order
to expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we want to provide easy access to
resources that support their very important work. The [[m:Wikimedia
Resource Center]] is a hub designed in response to this issue: it is
intended to evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over
the world to the variety of resources and types of staff support they may
need to develop new initiatives or also expand existing ones.
This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase two of
the project, we will enable volunteer Wikimedians to add resources
developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia Resource
Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia Resource Center will include
features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can
support them.
We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for it!
If you have comments about the Wikimedia Resource Center, you can submit
your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page, or privately, via a survey hosted
by a third party, that shouldn’t take you more than 4 minutes to complete.
A feedback button is on the top right corner on every page of the hub.
Looking forward to more collaborations!
Best,
María
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
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Dear all,
In this year's Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU budget [1] we have foreseen
two grants to commission academic research/papers in the following areas:
1. Implementation of "non-commercial" exceptions in European copyright
2. Mapping of business models that make use of Wikimedia projects
We are now opening a call for proposals. If you know academics, Ph.D.
students or organisations that might be interested in such work, please
share!
There is a Meta-Wiki site that provides additional information and can be
shared:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Research
Have a great weekend everybody!
Dimi
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Transparency#Final_Budget_2017_.2…
Hi all,
The EU IPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) is the agency that
is responsible for operating an Orphan Works Database, as laid out in the
Orphan Works Directive.
Neither the Orphan Works Directive nor the OW Database have helped orphan
works being digitised and used, which was the original intention. Wikimedia
projects are a priori excluded from the scope and can't use the established
exception. Only cultural heritage institutions are allowed to benefit and
only after a diligent search (which no one really knows what it means). The
database itself is less than usable. Launched in 2014, it now holds only
around 5000 entries. The entries simply mention that a work is an orphan,
but don't link back to the work or offer preview.
Now, the EU IPO is doing a survey on the database and the orphan works
framework. Nothing of great importance, as the IPO can't propose changes to
legislation and DG CNCT doesn't really listen to them anyway, but the
survey is also opened to individuals. If you feel like having some fun:
https://www.tmdn.org/uss/466892/lang-en
Cheers,
Dimi
Hi Aussiepedians again, also crossposting to the Public Policy group,
TL;DR summary: Australia Fair Use campaign on Wikipedia will stop on
Monday; Australians encouraged to send a letter to their MP (and bring our
total over 10,000) here:
https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform
As we reach the end of the #FairCopyrightOz campaign (banners on en.wp in
Australia raising awareness of the Productivity Commission's recommendation
to introduce Fair Use to Australia) I wanted to give an update and request:
- Thanks to the diligent A/B-testing work of Seddon at the WMF, the total
clickthrough rate of the banners has remained steady, even while the actual
visibility of them has been decreased. They started at standard banner-size
visible at 50% on day 1, then steadily decreasing to 12% with smaller
banner-size, and also removing the 1 week cookie-timeout - so people would
only see 5 banners and then it would stop. So, we've managed (in my
opinion) to be simultaneously very visible but also non-disruptive).
- Choice Australia (a very respected consumer rights organisation -
equivalent of the USA's 'Consumer Reports'), which ran an equivalent
campaign several years ago (the last time Fair Use was recommended by a
gov't inquiry) has now sent an email to their mailing list cross-promoting
ours. They are thereby endorsing our campaign - which gives a great boost
of credibility too. (Linux Australia has also cross-promoted to their
members, as has the NSW education sector).
- We are just about to reach 8,000 people who have sent an email directly
to their local member of the federal parliament (and also their 12 state
senators). This equals over 100,000 emails sent to elected representatives
on the issue of promoting Fair Use as something that the general public
cares about. On an electorate-by-electorate breakdown it is the inner-city
of the State Capitals which are the most engaged by the issue. We know
we've got their attention because several politicians are sending reply
emails to their constituents that are written the same as each other -
meaning that they've taken the time to draft a response from their party's
position and distribute the same text it among their MPs (which also means
they're talking about us).
- The final day of the banners on WP will be Monday. We are hoping to break
the 10,000 mark of people emailing their MPs. *If you've not already: Go
here, put in your postcode, adjust the template email if you wish, and
send! https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform
<https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform> *
- There have been several other media mentions and blogposts from allied
groups (such as EFF, Creative Commons) which we've been compiling here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FairCopyrightOz#Campaign_Report
- ADA / EFA have been able to book many meetings with the relevant members
of parliament/senators responsible for this issue over the next week. This
is where the public advocacy turns more quiet, as we talk with MPs and
await the Government's overdue official reply to the Productivity
Commission report. Then, depending on what they say, the other parties will
make their positions known... Unsurprisingly, the Copyright industry is
also lobbying but they seem to have been taken by surprise by our campaign,
since all they've managed to say in reply is that we're stooges of "big
tech/Google" and that Wikipedia is already free-licensed (which are pretty
obvious misdirection/straw man arguments) and to repeat the claim that Fair
Use will mean Aussie artists will stop getting royalties - despite not
demonstrating a single example of a royalty currently being paid for which
would stop; nor acknowledging that 'not harming the commercial rights of
the artist' is a key test for what counts as 'fair'.
Yours in Copyrighteousness,
-Liam / Wittylama
p.s. Also this week in Australian copyright law, the federal parliament
approved a longstanding bill which enshrines disability access in
accordance with our obligation under the *Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind
and Vision Impaired*. There's also some great stuff in there for GLAMs. You
can read about this on the EFA's press statement:
https://www.efa.org.au/2017/06/15/copyright-amendment-bill/ or the ADA's:
http://digital.org.au/media/australia-leads-disability-access-thanks-copyri…
So that's pretty damn cool too!
Hi Dimi,
I'd like to repeat my note regarding the GRUR meeting on the single market directive on June 12 in Brussels and my suggestion to attend if possible at all.
There you might be able to reach the people who can make it possible to exclude wikipedia from the upload filter requirements.
This would not be the big win liability exemption for all user generated content but at least non-profit platforms could and must be exempt.
In my talks every single person assured me that they do not intend to cover wikipedia with the regulation. So it should be possible to exclude non-profits.
Rgds
Henning
-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------Von: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com> Datum: 01.06.17 11:38 (GMT+01:00) An: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Betreff: [Publicpolicy] EU Policy Monitoring Report - May
tl;drAn all important Internal Market Committee (IMCO) vote on copyright is next week. As IMCO has joint responsibility on this file, their final wording on the “upload filtering” article is crucial. {{ACTION REQUIRED}} This and past reports: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor ===Copyright reform - Internal Market Committee Vote---All important vote: With exactly one week to go until the vote in the Internal Market Committee (8 June), the largest political group, the EPP, has entrenched itself and is trying get a majority for something that can only be defined as extremist. [1][2][3] While rapporteur Catherine Stihler (S&D UK) has been working for months to find a compromise that assures liability exceptions and freedom of speech provisions for open platforms like Wikipedia remain in place and content recognition systems don’t become compulsory, [4] the EPP has last week left the negotiating table. Instead, their shadow rapporteur Pascal Arimont (EPP BE) has circulated “Alternative Compromise Amendments” on the publishers right and the upload filtering provision. [5][6] ---Is it really this bad?: Yes! The proposal on a a press publishers ancillary copyright that lasts for 50 years (instead of 20 in the Commission proposal), applies to academic publications (which weren't included) and to offline uses (also not included in the original text). As to upload filtering: Any platform that allows user uploads and does anything more than simply displaying such content will be stripped of the liability exemption provided for in Article 14 of E-Commerce Directive. This means that all open platforms, from Wikipedia to GitHub, will be liable for any infringements by their users.---The EPP game plan: They have been getting the shorter end of the stick in many committees on upload filtering and the press publishers right. By taking an extreme position, they either want to force the other groups to give in during compromises or poison the well and sabotage the reform as a whole. Either way, in the coming seven days they will be trying to split as many voting members of the Socialists and Liberals group as possible to get a committee majority. They have managed to do this in the past. ---Our game plan: Don’t panic, but get we need to hold onto a majority! This is the first crucial vote and it is a black-and-white one. We either manage to keep a majority behind the very sensible compromises by Ms. Stihler (that, btw, include Freedom of Panorama and Safeguard the Public Domain) or the EPP gets its way and we will end up having to defend the current status quo rather than working on positive change. The best thing we can do is contact the voting MEPs in this committee. In order not to waste time on the hardliners, here’s a list of people we believe are swing votes: *Nicola Danti (S&D IT): Coordinator of the Socialists group [7]*Olga Senhalova (S&D CZ) [8]*Christel Schaldemose (S&D DK) [9]*Sergio Prieto (S&D ES) [10]*Anna Hedh (S&D SE) [11]*Biljana Borzan (S&D HR) [12]*Jiri Pospisil (EPP CZ) [13]*Roza Grafin von Thum und Hohenstein (EPP PL) [14]*Ilidko Gall-Pelcz (EPP HU) [15]
I will be reaching out to some of you, but if you want to join, please do so! I am happy to get in touch to give you help and pointers.
===---Copyright reform - Other Committees---Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE): The deadline for amendments in the Civil Liberties committee is next week. It looks like the rapporteur from the EPP (Michal Boni, PL) and the shadow second largest group, the Socialists (Koster, DE) have agreed to focus only on the upload filtering article in order to give their opinion more weight. The EPP wants to significantly weaken the Commission proposal and enshrine liability protections, while the Socialists want to completely delete the entire article. ---Culture Committee (CULT): There have been some polemics about a new, unwaivable, performers’ right, which the EFF claims to have leaked. [16] The issue here is that unwaivable rights are not compatible with free licenses. We have had a meeting with the said performers’ collecting societies on this. They really do not want to hurt us or free licenses. We agreed to compromise on adding a carve-out for this case. This compromise has been brought into the Culture Committee as a compromise amendment. It will also be proposed in the lead committee - Legal Affairs. ===Database Directive Consultation: After the disastrously biased “Data Driven Economy” consultation [17], the European Commission is now asking specifically for organisations’ and citizens’ opinion of the Database Directive. [18] This is a priority to us, as the “sui generis” right on database that it establishes hinders projects such a Wikidata. We will be coordinating our answers on Meta-Wiki. Deadline is 30 August. [19]===[1]http://www.communia-association.org/2017/05/31/worst-version-eu-co…
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Procomuns 2017: 27 & 28 June 2017 (Barcelona)
Procomuns.net
Procomuns is a forum for the cocreation of public policies for a commons-oriented collaborative economy. Collaborative policies for collaborative economy. A space for the codesign and development of proposals, and public-commons solutions for a commons collaborative economy.
The collaborative economy based on digital platforms is growing exponentially, creating challenges and opportunities. It has turned into a top priority for the political agenda around the world, and the involvement of citizenship is key, as well as the differentiation of models and to impulse of the commons model and platform cooperativism as an opportunity to democratize economy at a large scale.
This year 2017 is the year of the regulations of the collaborative economy: we will discuss with representatives of the European Parliament, the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council about which policies could support the commons, and we will define guidelines for cities. We will reflect with Yochai Benkler, expert in digital commons, on the deep transformations underway, as well as define strategies of passing from an oligarchical economy to open social economy. We will present resources for entrepreneurship, economic models and technologies for the scalability of initiatives, and co-design solutions for city challenges, regarding housing, care, precarity and exclusion.
27 & 28 of June (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Barcelona Activa (C / Laguna 162-164) from 9am to 19pm every day, and final party at 28th at La T. Registration is open and free. .
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Procomuns 2017: 27 & 28 Juny 2017 (Barcelona)
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L’economia col·laborativa de plataformes digitals està creixent exponencialment, plantejant reptes i oportunitats. Ha esdevingut una prioritat per a les agendes polítiques de tot el món. És clau la involucració de la ciutadania, la diferenciaió de models i l’impuls del models procomuns i cooperativisme de plataforma com a oportunitat per a democratitzar l’economia a gran escala.
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Dear all,
We would like to invite you to a debate on 21 June in the European Parliament (Brussels) on "What educators need from copyright reform" organised by Communia, LIBER and EUROCLIO. The meeting will be hosted by MEP Marietje Schaake (ALDE).
The voice of educators is often overlooked in copyright reform debates. We want to change that. We are inviting practitioners and experts from the field of education to speak about ways in which copyright can support 21st century education.
During the meeting, we will highlight how the educational sector can benefit from a strong exception, to be introduced in the Copyright Directive. We will also present results of the "Right Copyright for Education" campaign (rightcopyright.eu <http://rightcopyright.eu/>) - a petition to the European Parliament signed by almost 5000 educators and citizens from across Europe.
Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Time: 12:30 - 14:15
Preliminary meeting agenda:
12:30 - 12:35 Welcome by Marietje Schaake (ALDE/MEP)
12:35 - 12:45 Introduction by Lisette Kalshoven (COMMUNIA / Kennisland, the Netherlands)
12:45 - 12:55 How copyright prevents sharing on our online educational platform, by Hans deFour (KlasCement, Belgium) TBC
12:55 - 13:05 How copyright affects the work of history educators, by Steven Segers (EUROCLIO)
13:05 - 13:15 The role of libraries in education, by Maria Rehbinder (LIBER)
13:15 - 13:25 Copyright and Education in Europe by Teresa Nobre (COMMUNIA)
13:25 - 14:00 Q&A
14:00 - 14:15 The results of the RIGHTCOPYRIGHT.EU campaign by Alek Tarkowski (COMMUNIA / Centrum Cyfrowe, Poland)
We would be grateful if you could RSVP by no later than Wednesday 15th of June to rsvp(a)communia-association.org <mailto:rsvp@communia-association.org>. If you do not yet have an European Parliament pass, we kindly ask you to include the following information in your RSVP (without a visitor pass and your passport you will not be able to enter the building):
• First name and family name
• Date of birth
• Nationality
• Type of ID
• Number of ID
We will provide a simple sandwich lunch. We look forward to your participation during this event.
Kind regards,
Lisette Kalshoven
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Hi all,
Just an update on today's vote on the EU copyright reform in the Internal
Market Committee (IMCO). This is one of the two lead committees on this
file. It was an important vote, although the final word will be with the
Legal Affairs Committee (JURI). The final result is a very much a mixed
bag.
*The good*
A compromise on Article 13 ("upload filtering") was found that was widely
supported by most groups. In a late night/early morning deal, the EPP
agreed to vote in favour of the draft made by Polish MEP Michal Boni in the
Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE). [1] The adapted wording maintains the
liability exemptions of the E-Commerce Directive and specifically mentions
that exceptions and limitations must be respected.
There was a compromise amendment on preservation of cultural heritage aimed
at helping cultural heritage institutions. It also included a public domain
safeguard, but very surprisingly failed in a 15/15 tie. A separate
amendment that positively defines and safeguards the public domain passed.
(see AM 383 [2]) The wording reads that once a work is in the public
domain, copies thereof do not grant new copyright or related rights.
A full, mandatory EU Freedom of Panorama passed as a compromise amendment.
The positive result was at first contested, so it had to be voted a second
time. The narrow majority was confirmed.
Albeit not something we can use on our projects, an educational exception
compromise passed trying to fix some cross-border uses. This is a small
gain, but still a step in the right direction and something that will
benefit access to online education as a whole.
*The bad*
All amendments on the so-called ancillary copyright for press publishers
failed. Which means that the version of the European Commission was kept.
This however grants a new related right to publishers on even the tiniest
extracts of texts from articles, even just the title. Such a rule would
basically require all annotated bibliographies to require licensing. Also,
links that include the title of the article would require licensing. This
is very much a poisonous pill.
The compromise on text and data mining failed to get a majority in what was
the most surprising result of the day. Instead individual amendments were
approved that keep this activity limited to research organisations and
cultural heritage institutions only.
*The next steps*
We need to analyse the situation and re-group with other partners on TDM
and ancillary copyright. These two parts of the reform are fundamental to
the inner workings of the internet - searching and linking. We can't afford
to break these.
With safeguarding the public domain and Freedom of Panorama we have
achieved a good first win. Especially the latter is already being heavily
attacked in the Legal Affairs Committee. We will have until September to
get a majority in this committee as well.
Cheers,
Dimi
[1]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML…
[2]
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2F%2FEP%2F%2FNONSGML…
Dear list,
Currently the European Parliament is debating the future of EU copyright.
As this blog post greatly explains, there are a few worrisome tendencies
that we need to make go away before it is too late. [1] The first very
important date is tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee will vote on
a number of compromises on the copyright reform. As the drama would
require, the rapporteur from the Socialist Group Catherine Stihler (UK) is
facing off the shadow-rapporteur from the Christian Democrats Pascal
Arimont (BE). We need the former to get the majority, because the
"alternative compromise amendments" by the latter would require online
platforms that host user-generated content to install upload filters. Also,
the compromises by Stihler come along with a safeguard for the public
domain and Freedom of Panorama.
If you want to help, you may use this microsite to call an MEP for free [2]
or get in touch with me, so I can best direct you to the MEPs that still
need the most convincing.
Cheers,
Dimi
[1]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/06/european-copyright-directive-proposal/
[2]https://savethememe.net/en