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(a)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(a)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-cop…
>
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