Dear digital rights and open knowledge aficionados,
This is the final email of 2022 that you'll receive via this mailing list from the WMF Global Advocacy team!
We have two special final reads for you: our "Don't Blink" monthly retrospective for November and a reflection on our human rights-related work over the past year. We'll add a few special extra reads at the bottom of this email too, in case you want to indulge over the holiday season.
- - - -
To mark Human Rights Day this year, we have shared what we’ve been doing over the past year to protect hundreds of thousands of Wikimedians and billions of readers from these threats. Personal stories from Wikimedians in Belarus and Ukraine bring the importance of this work to life. Take a look at our blog post [1].
Our November "Don't Blink" is now available [2]. The blog post covers the actions we’ve taken this past month to advance fundamental rights online. Highlights include:
* Five conferences that our team attended, spanning five countries and three community-organized events.
* Participation in UNESCO consultation on the draft of a model regulatory framework for platforms.
* The Foundation filed comments in response to the Privacy Civil Liberties Oversight Board's reexamination of a crucial law on which the US Government bases parts of its surveillance activities.
- - - -
Some of our team's top-selections of writing and action over the past year:
* Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team [3]
* WMF Earns Accreditation to the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Council [4]
* How Wikimedia and partner orgz helped ensure US companies support access to free knowledge for the Russian people [5]
We hope you enjoy the reads!
Ziski & The Global Advocacy Team
______
[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/20/celebrating-human-rights-day-2022-wit…
[2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/16/dont-blink-public-policy-snapshot-for…
[3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/26/meet-the-wikimedia-foundation-global-…
[4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/07/22/wikimedia-foundation-earns-…
[5] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/how-wikimedia-and-partner-organizatio…
+1 for the congratulations. This is really great to see Article 14 implemented in the best possible way. This will get SE a bonus point in our implementation tracker at eurovision.communia-association.org /Paul
—
Director of Policy, Open Future | openfuture.eu | +31641374687 (Signal)
> On 1 Dec 2022, at 10:55, publicpolicy-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>
> Send Publicpolicy mailing list submissions to
> publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/publicpolicy.lists.wikimedia.or…
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> publicpolicy-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Publicpolicy digest..."
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Copyright Directive implemented in Swedish law (Eric Luth)
> 2. Re: Copyright Directive implemented in Swedish law
> (Franziska Putz)
> 3. Re: Copyright Directive implemented in Swedish law (Lilli Iliev)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 09:14:02 +0100
> From: Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se>
> Subject: [Publicpolicy] Copyright Directive implemented in Swedish law
> To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia
> <publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> <CAH3ZCceJWQ2onsxR8eGN_H7WogZHdTv5ourTYYdYNxL6Zt=Skg(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="00000000000079adda05eebfceed"
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Swedish parliament just voted (a few hours ago) on the final
> implementation of the EU Copyright Directive in Swedish law. The vote
> passed, which of course embeds all the issues with the EU Copyright
> Directive in Swedish law, but also brings the good parts.
>
> I'd especially like to mention one thing that I'm very happy that we
> succeeded with in our advocacy: to broaden the so called Article 14, often
> phrased as the the 'safeguarding of the public domain', in the Swedish
> implementation.
>
> The EU Copyright Directive states that no new copyright or related right
> can be applied on digitizations / digital reproductions of 'works of visual
> art' – a practice which has been fairly common in Sweden. Based on our
> feedback and advocacy towards Swedish government and parliament, it was
> however broadened to 'works of art', which certainly includes everything in
> the grey zone between what could be defined as work of art and work of
> visual art respectively (such as applied arts, handicraft, probably also
> manuscripts etc.).
>
> In Sweden, the creation of the kinds of art works just mentioned have
> historically been dominated by women – which also means that we have a much
> stronger legal framework for making women's art visible online in Sweden.
>
> This will mean a whole new opportunity for working with the digitization of
> the Swedish cultural heritage.
>
> Happy to reply to any questions on this (or anything else about the Swedish
> implementation, of course).
>
> Best,
> *Eric Luth*
> Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
> Advocacy
> Wikimedia Sverige
> eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>
> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
>
Hi everyone,
The Swedish parliament just voted (a few hours ago) on the final
implementation of the EU Copyright Directive in Swedish law. The vote
passed, which of course embeds all the issues with the EU Copyright
Directive in Swedish law, but also brings the good parts.
I'd especially like to mention one thing that I'm very happy that we
succeeded with in our advocacy: to broaden the so called Article 14, often
phrased as the the 'safeguarding of the public domain', in the Swedish
implementation.
The EU Copyright Directive states that no new copyright or related right
can be applied on digitizations / digital reproductions of 'works of visual
art' – a practice which has been fairly common in Sweden. Based on our
feedback and advocacy towards Swedish government and parliament, it was
however broadened to 'works of art', which certainly includes everything in
the grey zone between what could be defined as work of art and work of
visual art respectively (such as applied arts, handicraft, probably also
manuscripts etc.).
In Sweden, the creation of the kinds of art works just mentioned have
historically been dominated by women – which also means that we have a much
stronger legal framework for making women's art visible online in Sweden.
This will mean a whole new opportunity for working with the digitization of
the Swedish cultural heritage.
Happy to reply to any questions on this (or anything else about the Swedish
implementation, of course).
Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se