2016-04-04 19:44 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
[Warning: This is a lawman's analysis. I'm not
a lawyer.]
Wow, this is a pretty incredible decision. It seems the Swedish Supreme
Court has gutted the country's Freedom of Panorama law (for all works
including buildings) by simply declaring that the the law's statement that
"Works of art may be reproduced..." ("Konstverk får avbildas...")
doesn't
apply to the internet.
Not necessarily – you're still free to post your vacation pictures on
Instagram or Facebook, for example, as I understand it. But for us
that's almost irrelevant: if you want to make information about public
spaces available to the public, you need to do so in a structured way
and they need to be able to easily find it.
But it's just to roll up our sleeves and start the legislative fight, I suppose.
//Johan Jönsson
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