Hi everyone,
As far as Brussels in concerned this can be packaged in a way that provides
extra traction to our FoP reform initiative. We now have a very concrete
and recent example to answer the question "But did you ever really have any
problems with that?".
As far as Sweden is concerned, between Anna, John and Karl the chapter is
such a high concentration of public policy expertise that I am sure they
will manage to spin it as they please. We will all help them with anything
they ask for.
Meanwhile, it would be important to make sure as many individuals and
professional organisations (photographers, painters, architects)
participate in the consultation by the EU. We're currently working on our
draft answers. There will one set that is provided to the general public as
an answering guide and then again our own set of answers. You can
participate here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/FoP_Consultation#Draft_Answers
Cheers,
Dimi
2016-04-05 3:00 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Johan Jönsson
<brevlistor(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The decision came today, so the legal analysis
that exists isn't very
thorough, but here's a comment from a Swedish copyright lawyer –
former lawyer for the Association of Swedish Photographers – whose
interpretation is that it's mainly about databases rather than
individual images:
http://www.fotosidan.se/cldoc/lag-och-ratt/fotosidans-jurist-om-konsekvense…
According to that article, it sounds like it mostly depends on how popular
your website is, and unfortunately the court didn't offer any suggestions
for what constitutes sufficient "economic significance", other than the
bizarre claim that postcards don't meet that threshold (although I'm sure
that far more money has been made off of Swedish FoP postcards than images
from Offentligkonst.se). In the absence of any guidelines, will people want
to take the risk of even posting individual images? I'm sure BUS will start
threatening to sue anyone who doesn't pay licensing fees regardless, as the
lack of clarity certainly plays to their advantage.
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