Publicpolicy August 2018

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social media during the copyright pre-vote
by Anna Mazgal 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

Dear All, as of next week we will be communicating more intensely our mobilisation around copyright (see the update that Dimi just shared for details). We decided to use the #fixcopyright as the main hashtag. If you use it too, in any language, we can then amplify, share and coordinate better. We also know that the European Digital Rights will use #uploadfilter and #1ofthemillion with the latter to underline that these are people and not bots that are taking interest in the messages around a better copyright reform. These could be good ## to follow if you want to see what is happening EU-wide but also in your language during the copyright action week that starts on Monday. This is the initiative of #saveyourinternet that we do not directly link to (as mentioned in the report we will have our own landing page) but they may have a lot of interesting messages and stuff to watch. Have a good weekend, Anna Anna Mazgal EU Policy Advisor Wikimedia anna(a)wikimedia.be @a2na mobile: +32 487 222 945 51 Rue du Trône BE-1050 Brussels

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Dimi's interview on "The Europeans" podcast
by Liam Wyatt 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Ciao all, Dimi hasn't mentioned it but he was recently interviewed on a fun and informative podcast called "The Europeans" - talking about his, and Wikimedia's, role in recent copyright legislation lobbying in Brussels. Direct link to the timestamped start of his interview here: https://soundcloud.com/user-584654470/august-21-the-g-spot-of-europe#t=18:20 I think he did a great job getting the importance of the topic across to a general interest audience in a way that was engaging but not simplistic. I also think that this kind of forum is really important for us to be reaching as it's NOT the usual crowd of people who are already interested in copyright or lobbying -- Links -- The tweet from the producers about this episode (pls RT): https://twitter.com/EuropeansPod/status/1031808373086412800 Episode homepage: https://europeanspodcast.com/2018/08/21/august-21-the-g-spot-of-europe/ Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/it/podcast/the-europeans/id1315776736?l=en&mt=2 Best, - Liam

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EU Policy Monitoring Report - August
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

tl;dr Ahead of the next important copyright vote on 12 September everyone is waiting to see what new compromises and amendments will be on the slate. This and past reports: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor COPYRIGHT VOTE ON 12 SEPTEMBER Procedure: It is only the second time rule 63(c)3 has been invoked [1], so no one seems absolutely certain how things will go down. What we know is that the baseline text will be the initial legislative proposal by the Commission. [2] Then there will be a block vote to update it to the JURI version [3], except for contested articles. On contested articles there will be split votes, meaning that they will be voted on individually with several competing amendments to choose from. We are expecting split votes on articles 11, 13 if there is no compromise, as well as on some exceptions. Compromises: The rapporteur Mr. Voss was meeting with the shadow rapporteurs this week. On Article 13 (filtering and remuneration on UGC platforms) a compromise doesn’t seem impossible, but all of digital Brussels is still waiting to see a suggestion by the rapporteur, which is expected late on Friday. On Article 11 (ancillary copyright for press publishers) a compromise is not too likely. At the same the two political groups that were almost perfectly split during the last vote, ALDE and S&D, are trying to hammer out internal compromises to appear more united. If there is no acceptable proposal by Mr. Voss on Article 13, an potential alternative compromise supported by most of S&D and/or ALDE would be the odds-on favourite. Other Amendments: Freedom of Panorama and a User Generated Content Exception will be again voted on. This is the last chance to include these in the reform. Amendments to improve to the text and data mining exception are also expected. Postponement: There are consistent rumours that the Commission is suggesting to postpone the vote by another month to beginning of October. We won’t know for sure until the middle of next week, but we believe it is way more likely the vote will happen as planned on 12 September, so we are preparing for it. EVENTS & ACTIONS WE ARE WORKING ON Parliamentary Breakfast with Jimmy Wales: On Thursday, 6 September, Jimmy Wales will speak at a parliamentary breakfast inside the European Parliament. The target audience for such events are MEPs and staff. The breakfast will be hosted by four MEPs from different political groups and Member States to avoid political colouring. The topic will be the EU copyright reform and its potential effect on free knowledge projects like Wikipedia. Event & edit-a-thon in Strasbourg: We have booked a room inside the European Parliament’s Strasbourg building on 11 September in the afternoon. This is less than twelve hours ahead of the scheduled vote. Our main idea is to use it as a last opportunity to demonstrate to undecided MEPs the concrete consequences the different amendments would have on our projects. Like this we hope they will be voting on concrete examples instead of on abstract ideas. Example: “Should this image be included in this Wikipedia article?” During the day we would like to organise an EP-related edit-a-thon where MEPs and staff can participate and learn about the editing process. For both we need volunteers on location and we can help with travel. If you are interested in coming to Strasbourg, please get in touch with us at eupolicy(a)wikimedia.be Postcards to MEPs: Wikimedia Italia will send handwritten postcards to Italian MEPs with blacked out monuments from their region. This will be coupled with a call to support Freedom of Panorama. If you would like to do something similar and need any kind of support, please get in touch. Same address: eupolicy(a)wikimedia.be WMF landing page and contact tool: Among other things, the WMF is working on a landing page to provide information about the reform and our vision, as well as on a contact tool. They are also investing a lot of effort in getting the communications side of things, including social and traditional media, right. More information about this was shared on-list earlier this week: [4] Media outreach: Several EU chapters are preparing to send out press releases or trying to get opinions places in newspapers in their country. If you would like to try working with media but need help, please get in touch. MISCELLANEOUS PSI Directive: There is life beyond copyright and it looks like the Public Sector Information Directive, a piece of legislation that aims at opening up public data and documents for re-use. [5] The rapporteur in the opinion giving Internal Market committee, Julia Reda, has published her opinion [6] as well as all amendment proposals by fellow committee members. [7] Next, the rapporteur in the lead Industry, Research and Trade committee, Neoklis Sylikiotis, is expected to do the same. We are, together with the OKFN and Communia, providing expertise and amendment ideas. Deadline for amendments is 11 October, the committee vote is scheduled for early December. .eu domain names: The piece of legislation regarding the dotEU domain names will be updated. Interesting aspects to look out for include the rules on revoking domains and new rules about accessing whois data. [8] Disinformation: There is a “Multistakeholder Forum on Disinformation” in Brussels that is currently working on drafting a Code of Practices for social media and advertisers with the goal to curtail disinformation, especially with regard to the next European Parliament elections.[9] It is expected to deliver an agreement with concrete measures on 26 September. The Commission may or may not follow up with a proper legislative proposal. Officially that depends on whether they are satisfied by the final version of the code. === [1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getLastRules.do?language=en&reference=R… [2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_e… [3] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL… [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2018-August/001836.html [5] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?reference=2018/… [6] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML… [7] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&reference=PE-625… [8] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/regulation-implementatio… [9] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/meeting-multistakeholder…

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Update on EU Copyright
by Allison Davenport 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

*Hello everyone,This week, we re-published a blog post[1] in English that is a translation/adaptation of a post on the WMDE blog[2] on the technical pitfalls of automatic content filtering. As we have mentioned before[3], a regulatory mandate like Article 13 of the proposed EU Copyright Directive which would require similar filters to be applied to nearly all content uploaded online would only exacerbate the types of problems that our guest author experienced here.We would also like to take this opportunity to update you on our efforts to promote a positive vision of copyright law in Europe in the weeks leading up to the EU Parliament’s September 12 vote on amendments to the Copyright Directive. We have been working closely with community leaders from across Europe to learn what materials the communities need from us and how we can unify our message across Europe.As a result of these discussions, we have decided to focus many of our efforts on building a landing page about EU Copyright reform. This landing page will allow visitors to look up and contact their MEP via email, phone, or tweet with a pre-populated script. It will also serve as a central repository for information about the Wikimedia movement’s perspective on EU Copyright. This landing page is where all of our future blog posts on this topic, social media campaigns, and ideally the chapter activities should send traffic. We will send you an update as soon as that page goes live with the URL.Other materials we are working on include: a statement from the Wikimedia Foundation on a positive vision for copyright; a series of flyers which can be printed and shared in-person or online by the community when you talk to others about EU Copyright; and some social media suggestions if you can help us raise awareness ahead of the vote.We look forward to sharing an update about further ways to get involved in our policy activities soon! Meanwhile, if you have any questions please direct them at policy(a)wikimedia.org <policy(a)wikimedia.org> or directly at jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org <jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org> and adavenport(a)wikimedia.org <adavenport(a)wikimedia.org>.Best,Allison DavenportTechnology Law and Policy Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation[1]https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-… <https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/27/can-beethoven-send-takedown-requ…> [2] https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/08/06/von-einem-der-auszog-das-fuerchten-zu-… <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/08/06/von-einem-der-auszog-das-fuerchten-zu-…> [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/14/dont-force-platforms-to-replace-commu… <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/14/dont-force-platforms-to-replace-commu…> *

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Documentation for Wikimedia public policy work
by john cummings 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Hi all Is there a place where documentation we have around public policy work is kept? I was looking in the Wikimedia Resource Center and it appears there isn't currently a space thats appropriate, is it kept somewhere else? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_program_coord… The things that would be most useful for me are case studies of the projects that have happened and understanding which international agreements support the work of this group? E.g the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: - *Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.* * - Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. - (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.* If a space doesn't exist I'd be very happy to put some time in to help set one up Thanks John

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Call for Comments on the Philippines' Copyright Law (Now until 15 August)
by Roman Bustria Jr. 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi Everyone, I would like to share to you the announcement from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL): ------ *The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines is accepting comments to the latest version of the draft bill of the IP Code (as of 10 August 2018).* *IPOPHL is accepting comments to the latest version of the draft bill of the IP Code (as of 10 August 2018): http://bit.ly/2nR3IOL <http://bit.ly/2nR3IOL> * *The bill may be accessed and downloaded here: bit.ly/IPCodeDraftBill <http://bit.ly/IPCodeDraftBill>* *The IP Code reflecting the draft amendments may also be viewed here: bit.ly/IPCodeForComments <http://bit.ly/IPCodeForComments>* *Please submit your comments through bit.ly/IPCodeCommentsSubmissionForm <http://bit.ly/IPCodeCommentsSubmissionForm> until Friday, 25 August 2018.* *For concerns concerning the documents and the submission deadline, kindly email lagsecretariat(a)ipophil.gov.ph <lagsecretariat(a)ipophil.gov.ph>* *Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines will be conducting its 2nd Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) seminar in September, in a bid to keep the broader IP stakeholders of the current developments in intellectual property, as well as the impact of legislation on Philippine IP. The 2018 MCLE Program will be held for five days: September 6 ,7, 13, 14, and 21, 2018.* *-------* The recognized Wikimedia affiliate representing the Philippines is the Philippine Wikimedia Community User Group (Philwiki) Community. *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PhilWiki_Community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PhilWiki_Community>* It is headed by Irvin Parco Santo Tomas (irvinstotomas(a)yahoo.com) -- Sincerely, Roman Bustria Jr. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Update on EU copyright reform
by Jan Gerlach 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hello everyone, As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over. Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy. I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with. We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps! Best, Jan [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-cop…

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