Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-copy...
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-copy...
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Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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Hello,
I've just received a message in the Iberocoop ML about a WMF action plan for this phase of the copyright reform, which is said to be starting tomorrow. Do you have more information about this?
All the best,
Paulo
john cummings mrjohncummings@gmail.com escreveu no dia quinta, 16/08/2018 à(s) 13:50:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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Hi Paulo
Thanks for the timely question! We’re getting closer to the vote, which is scheduled for September 12. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) can submit amendments to the European Commission’s original proposal for the copyright directive until September 5. This means that we will only know what’s actually on the table on that day.
We are currently preparing information materials about the copyright reform that the community can use to talk to the media in their country, MEPs, or anyone else interested in the topic. We’re hoping to be able to build a landing page where we can send everyone who wants to learn more about why we care and how they can support our vision of a modern copyright. We’re working on a pretty tight timeline here, because many things remain unknown until after the European Parliament is back in session.
We’ll send out an update about next steps once more information is available. In the meantime, you can reach out to me directly if you want to get involved!
Best, Jan
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulosperneta@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I've just received a message in the Iberocoop ML about a WMF action plan for this phase of the copyright reform, which is said to be starting tomorrow. Do you have more information about this?
All the best,
Paulo
john cummings mrjohncummings@gmail.com escreveu no dia quinta, 16/08/2018 à(s) 13:50:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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The crucial thing at this stage, for the parliament-centred work, is to try to find amendment texts that can get the widest support, from the widest range of MEPs across the widest range of groups across the parliament; and to try to get other amendments taken *off* the table, so that the MEPs behind them back the cross-party amendments, to give them the best momentum.
The team need to think what the best basis text for those amendments should be -- should they be based on the texts that got through the internal market committee, that Catherine Stihler (PSE, Scotland) might be a powerful advocate for?
Or should they be based on the final evolved versions of amendments that had the most support and most nearly made it in JURI?
Even though the EP is in recess, now is the time to be doing those negotiations, and trying to sound out MEPs to build a cross-party platform that can get the most support.
The *fewer* choices of front-running amendments there are in September, and the more sensible they appear, the more chance we have to get them in, instead of the text that came out of JURI.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) can submit amendments to the European Commission’s original proposal for the copyright directive until September 5.
This is true.
This means that we will only know what’s actually on the table on that day.
This is true in absolute, but it is our job (or specifically, the job of the Parliament team & our allies in the different parties) to know as much as possible about what is on the table before September 5th, and to do our best to try to shape it into as successful and consistent a set of proposals as we can.
One specific thing I would like to put up for consideration would be an amendment that: if publication of a work is permitted by virtue of one or more of the copyright exceptions, then the making available of the work shall also be permitted.
This should sort a little local difficulty in Sweden that Wikimedia ran into recently. It is also, I would submit, a sound principle in keeping copyright law consistent and coherent, and preventing it becoming even more complicated than it needs to be. It is not helpful, nor good for the comprehension of copyright law, for distinctions to be made between different modes of publication.
Such an amendment could perhaps be introduced and presented as a response to M. Cavada's amendment, now part of the JURI amendments, that sought to limit re-use and re-publication of material covered by exceptions.
It would be useful if we could get the above counter-text (or alternatively, rider) through, I think.
All best,
James.
On 16/08/2018 23:25, Jan Gerlach wrote:
Hi Paulo
Thanks for the timely question! We’re getting closer to the vote, which is scheduled for September 12. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) can submit amendments to the European Commission’s original proposal for the copyright directive until September 5. This means that we will only know what’s actually on the table on that day.
We are currently preparing information materials about the copyright reform that the community can use to talk to the media in their country, MEPs, or anyone else interested in the topic. We’re hoping to be able to build a landing page where we can send everyone who wants to learn more about why we care and how they can support our vision of a modern copyright. We’re working on a pretty tight timeline here, because many things remain unknown until after the European Parliament is back in session.
We’ll send out an update about next steps once more information is available. In the meantime, you can reach out to me directly if you want to get involved!
Best, Jan
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulosperneta@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I've just received a message in the Iberocoop ML about a WMF action plan for this phase of the copyright reform, which is said to be starting tomorrow. Do you have more information about this?
All the best,
Paulo
john cummings mrjohncummings@gmail.com escreveu no dia quinta, 16/08/2018 à(s) 13:50:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-copy...
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John, in my opinion (the board of Wikimedia Polska is of the same mind) what European affiliates could do, what's most constructive and wiki-way, is to organize edit-a-thons with focus on articles about copyright. Ideally, in cooperation with copyright collectives. This is difficult for many reasons, but might bridge a huge gap.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 14:50 john cummings, mrjohncummings@gmail.com wrote:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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On 2018-08-16 16:05, Szymon Grabarczuk wrote:
John, in my opinion (the board of Wikimedia Polska is of the same mind) what European affiliates could do, what's most constructive and wiki-way, is to organize edit-a-thons with focus on articles about copyright.
That's great. How can we find such "copyright collectives"?
Spencer Graves
Ideally, in cooperation with copyright collectives. This is difficult for many reasons, but might bridge a huge gap.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 14:50 john cummings, mrjohncummings@gmail.com wrote:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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Hi Spencer,
you can find them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies
Additionally, departments/ministries responsible for copyright affairs publish national official lists of copyright collectives.
There are also copyright agencies, which are administrative bodies. Basic info on these is on Wikipedia :)
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 00:16 Spencer Graves, < spencer.graves@effectivedefense.org> wrote:
On 2018-08-16 16:05, Szymon Grabarczuk wrote:
John, in my opinion (the board of Wikimedia Polska is of the same mind) what European affiliates could do, what's most constructive and wiki-way, is to organize edit-a-thons with focus on articles about copyright.
That's great. How can we find such "copyright collectives"? Spencer GravesIdeally, in cooperation with copyright collectives. This is difficult for many reasons, but might bridge a huge gap.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 14:50 john cummings, mrjohncummings@gmail.com mrjohncummings@gmail.com wrote:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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Hi Szymon and John
Editathons to improve articles about copyright in various languages are one way you can get involved right now. Another way to support Wikimedia efforts to promote a positive vision for copyright in Europe is to start a conversation about the issue in your chapter or to let us know how we can help you be an advocate in your community. Can your chapters help raise awareness (via social media, press contacts, etc) of the vote in early September? Can they assist with translation? Can you send a message to your chapter membership? If you have other ideas, or want to get involved in another way, please send me an email.
We’ll share updates when we have more information on next steps and events. In the meantime, you can reach out to me directly if want to get involved!
Best, Jan
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:06 PM Szymon Grabarczuk tar.locesilion@gmail.com wrote:
John, in my opinion (the board of Wikimedia Polska is of the same mind) what European affiliates could do, what's most constructive and wiki-way, is to organize edit-a-thons with focus on articles about copyright. Ideally, in cooperation with copyright collectives. This is difficult for many reasons, but might bridge a huge gap.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, 14:50 john cummings, mrjohncummings@gmail.com wrote:
I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this, what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?
Best
John
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali ainali.jan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a balanced copyright law for Europe are not over.
Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should they choose to engage in any further advocacy.
I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is anything we can help you with.
We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps!
Best, Jan
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