Hi, 

Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session. 

/Jan Ainali

Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA 

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey Jan,

Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach <jgerlach@wikimedia.org> wrote:

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-copyright-proposal/

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