Hi folks,
We're writing to highlight a decision that came out of the Court of Justice
of the European Union (CJEU) earlier this week about how the "right to be
de-referenced" (or "right to be forgotten") should be applied
geographically. The CJEU was asked to settle questions about the scope of
de-referencing orders after the French data protection authority, CNIL,
fined Google for failing to de-reference information about a French
national from all versions of its search engine. Google argued that it
should only be required to de-reference information within the European
Union, but that the information could remain on versions of the search
engine outside of the EU (i.e. google.com). The Wikimedia Foundation is
concerned about the effects of de-referencing on fundamental rights like
freedom of expression and access to information, and submitted a
brief about these issues at both the national court and the CJEU. Now,
nearly a year after the final arguments before the CJEU, the court has
issued a ruling affirming Google's current practice of limiting
de-referencing only to users in the European Union. While we are excited
about this limitation, we are still concerned about the inequalities in
information created by any geographically limited de-referencing. If you'd
like more information about this decision, please check out our full write
up on the Wikimedia blog:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/24/do-europeans-have-a-right-t…
.
Best,
Allison
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Allison Davenport (she/her)
Technology Law and Policy Fellow
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
adavenport(a)wikimedia.org
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Who could possibly have foreseen such a turn of events?(!)
https://www.politico.eu/article/licensing-agreements-with-press-publishers-…
Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and
> will instead change the way articles appear in search results, a senior
> executive said on Wednesday.
>
The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of obtaining more
> money from the tech giant for displaying their content under the European
> Union's new copyright regime, which France was the first to transpose into
> national law.
>
"We don’t accept payment from anyone to be included in search results. We
> sell ads, not search results, and every ad on Google is clearly marked.
> That’s also why we don’t pay publishers when people click on their links in
> a search result," Richard Gingras, vice president for news at Google, said in
> a blogpost
> <https://www.blog.google/perspectives/richard-gingras/how-google-invests-new…>
> .
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Owen Blacker, London GB
@owenblacker <http://twitter.com/owenblacker>
Hi everyone
It’s been a while since we have written to this list. We hope you are all
doing well!
We want to let you know that on Friday September 20, for 24 hours, the
Wikimedia Foundation’s website will participate in the digital
<https://digital.globalclimatestrike.net/> version of the Global Climate
Strike <https://globalclimatestrike.net/> (a “green out”) to draw attention
to the necessity to “transition fairly and swiftly away from fossil fuels
to 100% renewable energy for all.” We think that there cannot be any doubt
about the need for policy that addresses global warming
<https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/>. Therefore, the Foundation will support these
efforts that affect us all and ultimately promote the cause of sharing free
knowledge as well.
This will only be on the Wikimedia Foundation’s website, not on Wikipedia.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best,
Jan
P.S. See also the Foundation's sustainability report that was published
today:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/19/how-the-wikimedia-foundatio…
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Jan Gerlach
Sr. Public Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
jgerlach(a)wikimedia.org
@pd_w <https://twitter.com/pd_w>
@wikimediapolicy <https://twitter.com/wikimediapolicy>
Hello,
Are anyone from Wikimedia attending the European Free and Open Source
Software Policy Meeting 2019?
https://registration.fsfe.org/EU-FOSS-Policy-2019
There might be someone from my organisation going (but probably not me
since I am not even two weeks into my new job).
Best regards,
Jan Ainali
Codebase Steward
Foundation for Public Code
https://publiccode.net