Publicpolicy February 2019

publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org

13 participants
5 discussions

Deal on EU copyright reform
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi all, The parliament and the Council have just reached a final deal on copyright. We are going to get hold of the text as soon as possible, share it with you and then analyse the final compromises. Based on this we will prepare our final position, arguments and action plan. We plan on having calls and meetings with many people on this list in the coming days/weeks. Creative & fresh ideas are welcome! Final vote is expected end of March or in April . Cheers, Dimi

5 4

EU Copyright Reform: Next Steps
by Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi all, Tonight, tomorrow and on Wednesday MEPs will meet with the Romanian Presidency and European Commission for what is expected to be the final round of trilogues.This means that by Thursday we should know whether we have a final agreement. Expectations are that this will be the case and that a final plenary vote will take place end of March or in April. If the text remains as it is now, which is to be expected, Wikimedia won't be able to support the reform. [1] This also mean that we would speak out against it. Nevertheless, for now we think we should get prepared and hold off from immediate public actions this week until we know what the final version is like. The reason for this is that the exact wording of the agreement will be crucial to our argumentation. We also have to agree on the best timing for actions ahead of the vote. Currently we are preparing an outline of actions that we could take as a community. There are plenty of ways we can make our voice heard and they can be suited to the time and hands on deck available. Our feeling is that we shouldn't just repeat what we did last time but these things are, of course, country specific. Soon we will invite the groups we have already worked with to calls to discuss possible actions. If you want to get in touch on your side, please do! Cheers, Anna & Dimi [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/problems-remain-with-the-eus-cop…

1 0

07 Feb '19

Dear all, the conclusion to the copyright directive is approaching. The outcome seems to be horrible, as described for example here: https://twitter.com/paul_keller/status/1092912540194099200 or here: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/ Implementation of article 11 (link tax) and article 13 (content filtering) will have a severely negative impact on the digital environment. We don't know how much the link tax will affect the references in Wikipedia and Wikidata yet. As such, we cannot predict how much poorer the new liability regime will make our digital environment. The numerous outcries of digital rights organizations regarding the loss of freedom of speech and expression should be our concern, too. The final plenary vote will most probably take place in March or April, some weeks before the elections of the next European Parliament. It will be the last chance to stop this disaster, after that we shall be left with damage control. Do your chapters have an action plan? Best regards Eva Lepik Wikimedia Eesti chairperson

7 8

Policy enforcement at the Swedish National Heritage Board today
by Jan Ainali 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

The Swedish National Heritage Board has had an internal policy promoting the use of CC BY, CC0 and PDM since 2017 but today they communicated internally in a very forceful way. Part of the message (my translation from Swedish): "Employees may not in their service use others copyrighted photographs that cannot be marked with CC BY, CC0 or PDM. Material that cannot be marked with PDM, CC0 or CC BY shall not be digitized or published." While it may not change their output much (they are already among the best in Sweden) I suspect this will send strong signals in the Swedish GLAM sector. Best regards, Jan Ainali http://ainali.com

4 4

WIPO-SCCR
by David Ramírez-Ordóñez 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Dear all. Is anyone in this group working on advocacy in the World Intellectual Property Organization, specifically in SCCR [1]? I will be happy to join you to prepare something for the next meeting in April. Cheers, [1] http://www.wipo.int/policy/en/sccr/ -- David http://nomono.co/david

2 2

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

Publicpolicy February 2019