tl;dr
Plenty of work on Freedom of Panorama in the Member States this month, which is important as shifting the negotiation preconditions for a few national governments is a very efficient way to change the dynamics in Brussels.
This and past reports: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Monitor
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Freedom of Panorama has been picked up in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Tallinn after our EU-wide #saveFoP campaign [1] last year. A step in the right direction in any of these capitals would immensely contribute to our EU reform effort.
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France: After Wikimédia France has managed to amend [2][3] the loi pour une République numérique in the National Assembly so that it includes at least partial Freedom of Panorama, we are now expecting the Senate vote to be in May or June. Anything is still possible, from full exception to a complete deletion. Anyone speaking French should keep their eyes open and offer their help. Activities are being prepared ;)
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Belgium: The consequent positioning Wikimedia Belgium is finally beginning to pay off. Members of Parliament of the ruling coalition have proposed a full Freedom of Panorama exception in the house. It it is a mix of personal contacts (e.g. the reception in honour of the founding of Wikimedia Belgium was hosted by the President of the Federal Parliament [5]) and spillover effects from the European #saveFoP campaign that has generated enough traction for this to happen. The goal now will be to keep the file going and not let disappear at the bottom of the waiting list.[6]
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Italy: Wikimedia Italia is working to untie a double knot. Not only is Italy completely lacking the notion of Freedom of Panorama, but beyond that their Heritage Law theoretically protects any building that is considered a cultural heritage. [7] Preliminary meetings with the Minister of Culture and Members of Parliament are taking place in order to find a way forwrad. The idea is to use the media buzz around Wikimania to help us get some political traction.
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Estonia: Freedom of Panorama is a given in Estonia, but only for non-commercial purposes. Wikimedia Eesti is working strategically and hard to change this. They have spend the past 6 months talking to almost every relevant stakeholder in the country. Their masterpiece: A letter written by the Estonian Architects’ Association supporting extending the exception to all uses. A public letter that we are allowed to show around! [8]
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Net Neutrality guidelines: Since the end of last year, the European Union has a new Telecommunications Single Market (TSM) framework. Part of the package are rules on mobile roaming and network neutrality. The Regulation will become applicable in April. Interestingly, BEREC (the body of national European telecoms regulators) has the final word on some key questions. It is currently producing implementation guidelines [9], that will settle practical questions around “traffic management”, “specialised services” and “zero-rating” very soon. Several wide cast lobbying campaigns targeting the national capitals (each national regulator is a member of BEREC) are underway.
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Commissioners talk the talk: The two Commissioners on every Brussels digital geek’s watchlist had several public appearances. Naturally, this led to a fair share of stargazing by all concerned stakeholders. At the launch of Startup Europe Week, Vice-President Ansip was envisioning “a single and connected European ecosystem” and pointing out “differences in national regulations” are an impediment to that. [10] Commissioner Oettinger confirmed the Audio-Visual Media Directive would be re-opened and also didn’t miss to mention a “single regulatory framework”. [11]
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In-house news
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WMUK had its first Advocacy Working Group meeting to make out its public policy priorities in the UK. The results show that text & data mining as well as orphan works are the two issues they want to look into more closely. [12]
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WMCZ, together with its free&open coalition partners, will organise a public policy advocacy seminar on 7 April. Yours truly will be there.
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WMNO & WMLVUG: The Wikimedia groups in Norway and Latvia have co-signed the Statement of Intent, appointed contact people and are now members of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU. [13] This brings the totals up to 18 with Bulgaria expected to join in the coming weeks. Anyone in touch with WMPT?
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WMCH & WMNO: Have decided to pitch into the EU policy fund for this year. Thank you!!! <3 Switzerland and Norway are not EU members, but their countries’ deals with Brussels oblige them to implement considerable parts of EU legislation, including on digital matters. [14]
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[1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015
[2]http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/amendements/3399/AN/250.asp
[3] http://blog.wikimedia.fr/aujourdhui-adoption-de-la-liberte-de-panorama-en-fr...
[4]http://www.lachambre.be/FLWB/PDF/54/1484/54K1484001.pdf
[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Founding_event_of_Wikimedia_Belg...
[6]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/WMBE/FoP
[7]https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libert%C3%A0_di_panorama#Italia
[8]https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pilt:EALi_vastus_panoraamivabadus.pdf
[9] http://berec.europa.eu/eng/document_register/subject_matter/berec/press_rele...
[10] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ansip/announcements/speech-vice-pr...
[11] http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/oettinger/announcements/new-regulat...
[12]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/WMKUK
[13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Statement_of_Intent#Signatories
[14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Funding/2016#Actual_Budget_for_201...
Hey Dimi (and list)
As always, great to head your reports :)
Estonia: Freedom of Panorama is a given in Estonia, but only for non-commercial purposes. Wikimedia Eesti is working strategically and hard to change this. They have spend the past 6 months talking to almost every relevant stakeholder in the country. Their masterpiece: A letter written by the Estonian Architects’ Association supporting extending the exception to all uses. A public letter that we are allowed to show around! [8]
This is *very* sweet! An English version (which could then be translate in, eg, French ;) would be useful ; how could we best make that happen?
[8]https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pilt:EALi_vastus_panoraamivabadus.pdf
Hi Jean-Fred,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of support with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
2016-02-29 16:14 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
Hey Dimi (and list)
As always, great to head your reports :)
Estonia: Freedom of Panorama is a given in Estonia, but only for non-commercial purposes. Wikimedia Eesti is working strategically and hard to change this. They have spend the past 6 months talking to almost every relevant stakeholder in the country. Their masterpiece: A letter written by the Estonian Architects’ Association supporting extending the exception to all uses. A public letter that we are allowed to show around! [8]
This is *very* sweet! An English version (which could then be translate in, eg, French ;) would be useful ; how could we best make that happen?
[8]https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pilt:EALi_vastus_panoraamivabadus.pdf
-- Jean-Fred
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Hey Tanel,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of support
with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
That’s perfect, thanks for doing it :) And congratulations to WMEE for your great work on this :)
We really do have mostly Raul here to thank for this huge - and often thankless - work (you can read his progress report on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Eesti/FoP_campaign_report_2015). I know that he doesn't get enough credit for it from our local community; hopefully, this thread will show him that his efforts are truly appreciated.
Tanel
2016-02-29 16:54 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
Hey Tanel,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of
support with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
That’s perfect, thanks for doing it :) And congratulations to WMEE for your great work on this :)
-- Jean-Fred
Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
Congratulations! This is encouraging to see in Estonia, and I like the approach of working with the Architects’ Association.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Tanel Pern tanel.pern@gmail.com wrote:
We really do have mostly Raul here to thank for this huge - and often thankless - work (you can read his progress report on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Eesti/FoP_campaign_report_2015). I know that he doesn't get enough credit for it from our local community; hopefully, this thread will show him that his efforts are truly appreciated.
Tanel
2016-02-29 16:54 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
Hey Tanel,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of
support with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
That’s perfect, thanks for doing it :) And congratulations to WMEE for your great work on this :)
-- Jean-Fred
Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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Sorry for the delay, but the English translations of the letter we sent to the landscape architects and the answers from three authors' organizations are up now on WMEE's wiki: https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panoraamivabadus#Inglise_t.C3.B5lked
This might give some insight on how we got the authors themselves on board and what concerns they had. Authors are quite important in moving towards FoP because most opponents argue they protect the authors, which might be a little bit difficult to do if the authors side with us.
Raul
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations! This is encouraging to see in Estonia, and I like the approach of working with the Architects’ Association.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Tanel Pern tanel.pern@gmail.com wrote:
We really do have mostly Raul here to thank for this huge - and often thankless - work (you can read his progress report on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Eesti/FoP_campaign_report_2015). I know that he doesn't get enough credit for it from our local community; hopefully, this thread will show him that his efforts are truly appreciated.
Tanel
2016-02-29 16:54 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
Hey Tanel,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of
support with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
That’s perfect, thanks for doing it :) And congratulations to WMEE for your great work on this :)
-- Jean-Fred
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Hi.
I'll try to reformat the translations I sent to Myriam and upload them by tomorrow on our little campaign page on WMEE wiki: https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panoraamivabadus
Currently, a WMEE grant proposal to WMF for campaign continuance this year is somewhere in a grant limbo, as the answer has been tied to some statistics reports from 2014 and whatnot. (The particulars of reporting aren't my cup of tea, I'm just an independent contractor working on FoP.) But if there should be a positive answer, we'll try to sum up our experiences in a document in English: mapping and engaging stakeholders, arguments we have used and countered, a short comparative legal background, etc. We've had a good experience with most of the authors' organizations and I think that approach could be copied elsewhere.
Raul
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Tanel Pern tanel.pern@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jean-Fred,
We've already shared the English translation of the EAA's letter of support with Myriam Berard from WMFR. I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere so I can share it here along with a more extensive progress report.
2016-02-29 16:14 GMT+02:00 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
Hey Dimi (and list)
As always, great to head your reports :)
Estonia: Freedom of Panorama is a given in Estonia, but only for non-commercial purposes. Wikimedia Eesti is working strategically and hard to change this. They have spend the past 6 months talking to almost every relevant stakeholder in the country. Their masterpiece: A letter written by the Estonian Architects’ Association supporting extending the exception to all uses. A public letter that we are allowed to show around! [8]
This is *very* sweet! An English version (which could then be translate in, eg, French ;) would be useful ; how could we best make that happen?
[8]https://ee.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pilt:EALi_vastus_panoraamivabadus.pdf
-- Jean-Fred
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