On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:33 PM, John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
Today we received some bad news. The Swedish Supreme
Court ruled according
to the will of the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden <http://bus.se/en>,
regarding images of public art online, more specifically in the case of our
service Offentligkonst.se <http://offentligkonst.se/>, a service of ours
that is using images from Wikimedia Commons.
This interpretation means that Freedom of Panorama became restricted and
that the public space shrunk. It is a great loss for our projects. Next we
will talk to our lawyers and see what our remaining legal options are.
Intensive efforts to influence our elected officials to change the outdated
and problematic clauses in the law are likely to be initiated during the
year.
We appreciate any lessons learned that exist regarding the work you guys
have done in your countries.
Some useful links (in Swedish):
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The legal argumentation from the court:
http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/201…
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Our press release:
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-kr…
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A time-line of what has happened:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offentligkonst.se/St%C3%A4mning
Best,
John
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John Andersson
Wikimedia Sverige
Project Manager
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
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