Hi Tanel,

I have only contacted some staff of WMF to help with setting up the campaign (like they helped as well in 2012 with SOPA). I think it would be great if someone could contact WMF to get their position. Who know who to contact for that and wants to do that?

Thanks!

Romaine

2015-06-21 9:36 GMT+02:00 Tanel Pern <tanel.pern@gmail.com>:
Re: campaign resources, are there any good sources available concerning the position of the corporate players on FoP in Europe? Namely,

- What is the position of Facebook, Google, etc. in this matter?
- Has anyone officially contacted WMF to get their position on current European FoP laws and the planned copyright reform?

2015-06-21 10:26 GMT+03:00 Tanel Pern <tanel.pern@gmail.com>:
Hi,

WMEE had a crash meeting on FoP yesterday, where we put together an initial action plan. Some of our plans mirror what has already been discussed here (contact MEPs, get a press release out). Some are related to our ongoing FoP efforts: Current Estonian copyright law only provides for non-commercial FoP and we've been working on promoting less restricted regulations. So far, our efforts have met limited success, mainly due to the fact that FoP is an obscure subject even for those affected - architects, photographers and so on. So we've put a lot of work into communicating with creative industry groups. This is something we would advise others to do under this campaign as well: Our chances of success will be much better if we can show that Wikipedia is not the only one affected by the current situation or the Cavada proposal.

Our current plans, thus, include:

* Creating Meta pages and blog posts for getting the info out to our community
* Publicizing a press release. We'll also try and get an opinion piece published in national media, but this might prove difficult due to the present media situation (i.e. massive noise over refugee quotas).
* Contacting our MEPs.
* Getting commissioner Ansip involved. This could be a huge boon, as he's previously spoken out in support of non-restricted FoP.
* Involving other organizations in the process. This would inclue other information society and free culture stakeholders, as well as creative industry groups.

We will, of course, also contribute all we can to the international effort.

Tanel Pern, WMEE

2015-06-19 12:12 GMT+03:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk>:
There's this on the Wikimedia UK blog - https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2015/06/uk-at-risk-of-losing-freedom-of-panorama/ 

We're also working on a few other things over the coming days and will share them when they are ready. We're looking to make a lot of noise over this. 

Thank you,

Stevie

On 18 June 2015 at 20:44, L.Gelauff <lgelauff@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, when there is, that could be a nice thing to link in social media. 

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Not yet, but our intention is to create one and translate it in the various European languages,

Romaine

2015-06-18 20:54 GMT+02:00 L.Gelauff <lgelauff@gmail.com>:
Hi,

is there a page aimed for an external audience which explains in a few lines of text what is the problem, and why we care?

Lodewijk

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

The message below I sent to the Wikimedia chapters.

As WMF considered SOPA as a big issue for Wikipedia/Wikimedia, this can have a huge impact on Wikipedia, Commons and other wikis and I think it would be good if WMF can take a stand in this matter and would help the European chapters with this issue.

Certainly some help with the E-mail / Tweet your Member of the European Parliament (like with SOPA) would help!

Greetings,
Romaine


Hi all,

This concerns all the chapters in the European Union and chapters in other European countries as well (copying is possible).

Subject
Copyrights reform in Europe going in the wrong direction, damaging Wikipedia.

What is going on?
In the European Parliament currently a proposal (amendment) is submitted that will restrict Freedom of Panorama in Europe.
This means: you are no longer allowed to upload images from modern buildings and works of public art on Commons and not allowed to use those images on Wikipedia.

Also if Freedom of Panorama is only allowed for Non Commercial purposes only, this is a problem for Wikipedia!

Some details?
It concerns the amendment AM421 proposed by Cavada and passed in the JURI committee.

When is the voting about the amendment?
Thursday 9th July

But we have one chance only!


What can we do about this?

Also we should think about a CentralNotice / Sitenotice to inform our readers.


Where is the coordination?
To have an overview it would be handy if you sign up for your country/area.

Collect here also your actions like press releases, tweets, Facebook posts, etc. Those can be useful to read and to see where some action is missing or needed.


You need more information?
Also
The Dutch chapter (WMNL) has formed a project group (including me) who is working hard on getting more attention for this subject. Both towards MEPs, the local community and towards the readers of Wikipedia. A campaign is coming up today or in the following days.

In Brussels Dimitar and Karl are monitoring the situation in the European Parliament. Thanks to them this issue comes to our attention.

Does your MEP like to meet someone in Brussels? Dimitar and Karl are in Brussels and I can come there as well.


Other suggestions?
Let us know!

Thanks!

Romaine

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