Hello,
We really miss in this list: * EU chapters lobby European Parliament
On my way home from a Creative Commons meeting recently, I spoke with someone from Google. That person is active in Brussels to lobby for their interest. We really miss an office in Brussels.
And concerning FoP, we are currently working on founding a chapter in Belgium, and one of its goals is getting FoP in Belgium. Also Wikimedia France is very active that subject.
Greetings from Europe,
Romaine
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:21:12 -0800 From: Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama Message-ID: CABMv6ma6caT=j5XvH+PAXNv9m0KTqoDKh1T1XLADyGq_GKLpOg@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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Hello Pine,
A number of possible freedom of panorama initiatives are being discussed here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama_campaignThese proposals are not being led by the WMF itself because there are strict regulations on how a tax-exempt nonprofit organization may engage in legislative activism.
The Wikimedia community has many creative ideas. Here are the proposals under discussion on Commons:
- Write a convincing rationale for why FoP is a good thing
- Petition
- US chapters lobby Congress
- Set-up an umbrella lobbying organization
- Geotargeted CentralNotice banner
- Identify allies (was: "Talk to Google")
- Identify educational audience for these photos
- Sample offline Wikipedias with Kiwix offline reader that
need photos
- Summary FoP law table
- Proposed wording
- Short and long term goals
- Baby step: state-level arts grants
- Identify violations
- Throw our toys out of the pram
- Lead by example
- Guerilla art campaign
Which do you think would be the most effective?
Best, Stephen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com wrote:
Good!
To the WMF folks, is WMF doing any advocacy of its own
regarding FOP in
the US?
Pine
-- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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