Hi everyone,

As you all know, the European Parliament voted yesterday to adopt MEP Voss’s amendments to the new Copyright Directive. These amendments, while facially different from the JURI text, will likely still impose pre-filtering obligations on platforms. As Dimi mentioned, the few exceptions and safeguards we were able to successfully advocate for are limited in scope. You can find the full text of what has been adopted here: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2018-0337+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN

This is a disappointing result for sure, and realistically, it will become increasingly difficult to make any meaningful changes as it goes to the Trilogue. As always, though, we will look for opportunities to oppose defend and advance our public policy agenda going forward. We will continue to keep this list updated when those opportunities arise.

We would like to thank everyone who engaged on this, whether it was through attending meetings, providing translations, coordination with the communities, or being active on this email list. Our campaign drove thousands of messages to MEPs and millions of impressions on on the #fixcopyright hashtag. This effort would not have been possible without the support of a huge group of Wikimedians coming together. In particular, we would like to reiterate everyone’s sentiments below that Dimi and Anna have done an excellent job throughout this whole process and are hopefully enjoying a well-deserved rest at the moment.

We will be publishing a blog post later this week discussing the full implication of this vote, and we have updated the landing page (in English) with a statement from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Until then,