Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to
net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
Hey John, welcome to the club!
Best, Lodewijk
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:38 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
--- Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/ gvarnum@wikimedia.org mailto:gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
-- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl http://www.kennisland.nl/ | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach <jgerlach@wikimedia.org mailto:jgerlach@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org mailto:jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann <john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de mailto:john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote: Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de http://wikimedia.de/
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
-- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote:
Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
-- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
Best, Jacob
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote: Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
-- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Congratulations and welcome ☺
Owen Board director, Open Rights Group (UK) [[User:OwenBlacker]]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, jrogers@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
Best, Jacob
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote:
Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
-- Kennisland | www.kennisland.nl | t +31205756720 | m +31613943237 | @lnkalshoven | skype: lisette.kalshoven
On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
Jan Gerlach Public Policy Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 jgerlach@wikimedia.org
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Great news! welcome, John!
Alice.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Owen Blacker owen@openrightsgroup.org wrote:
Congratulations and welcome ☺
Owen Board director, Open Rights Group (UK) [[User:OwenBlacker]]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, jrogers@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
Best, Jacob
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote:
Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
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On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Alice Wiegand awiegand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Great news! welcome, John!
Alice.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Owen Blacker owen@openrightsgroup.org wrote:
Congratulations and welcome ☺
Owen Board director, Open Rights Group (UK) [[User:OwenBlacker]]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, jrogers@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
Best, Jacob
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On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote:
Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
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On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
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On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
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Couldn't be happier to have you on board! Welcome!
Dimi
2016-04-07 19:42 GMT+02:00 Charles M. Roslof croslof@wikimedia.org:
Welcome, John!
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Alice Wiegand awiegand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Great news! welcome, John!
Alice.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Owen Blacker owen@openrightsgroup.org wrote:
Congratulations and welcome ☺
Owen Board director, Open Rights Group (UK) [[User:OwenBlacker]]
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 18:19 Jacob Rogers, jrogers@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! I look forward to working with you.
Best, Jacob
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 7, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Luis Villa luis@lu.is wrote:
Welcome, John!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 8:49 AM Timothy Vollmer tvol@creativecommons.org wrote:
Most excellent, John. I'm glad you're in this role and happy to be able to continue working with you. tvol
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Greg Varnum gvarnum@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations, John! Look forward to working with you. :)
-greg
Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org gvarnum@wikimedia.org
On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Lisette Kalshoven lk@kl.nl wrote:
Good to hear from you from this side as well John!
Cheers,
Lisette
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On 07 Apr 2016, at 17:39, Jan Gerlach jgerlach@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello John
Welcome! Very much looking forward to working with you!
Jan
==
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:38 AM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Dear all, > > I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and > Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. > Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be > responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is > surely the most daunting task I had to date. > > By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the > field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based > lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as > volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE > job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a > paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, > advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to > what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus > going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the > worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating > about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that > direction. > > From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most > central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the > past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've > also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the > Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama > legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my > new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the > legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, > regional and international level. > > Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking > forward to working with this great bunch of people. > > Kind regards > > -- > John H. Weitzmann > Referent für Politik und Recht > Legal and Policy Advisor > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge > allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. > V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt > für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
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Hi John,
Welcome!
And thank you for the CC NC brochure! We have translated it in Dutch and French, and published https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Belgium_publications it in three languages. The brochure is really well written and there is no way to better explain the situation than with it. I continuesly spread it whereever I come.
Greetings, Romaine
2016-04-07 16:38 GMT+02:00 John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de>:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Very happy to have you on board. Looking forward to your input and initiatives.
As I'm late to say a heartly welcome here (didn't check the list-mails for a while) I'm curious about your thoughts after settling in a few weeks. Do you already see some first focus in your work on national, European or global level?
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one aspect of this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible focus which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
Best regards and again great to have an experienced person like you as staff member.
Jens
2016-04-07 16:38 GMT+02:00 John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de>:
Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going. There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
-- John H. Weitzmann Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Hi,
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one aspect of this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible focus which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level*
Mathias
* (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
Hi all,
@Jens: Thx for the warm welcome. The settling in is not quite done yet. I'm still watching/learning and trying to tend to urgent things on the way. The justice ministry is high on the meeting agenda, a direct contact to the head of their copyright unit exists. Their ideas and initiatives around exceptions & limitations definitely touch on Wikiprojects. Any concrete suggestions welcome. Main items on this year's WMDE work plan regarding lawmaking are public works, freedom of panorama, database directive and ancillary publichers right, the three last of which happen mainly on the EU level as yet.
Best John
2016-06-01 8:01 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com:
Hi,
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one aspect
of
this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible
focus
which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level*
Mathias
- (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
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Hi.
Has there been any discussion about possibly (re)opening the question of the clause limiting FoP that demands that the pictures should be taken _from_ a public place? It could be argued this creates complications for businesses (as clearly demonstrated by the Hundertwasser case) and has potential for unlimited amount of uncertainty (the place where the photographer stood usually remains unseen on the picture itself, so the legality is hard to determine afterwords, especially on the Internet, e.g. on Commons). Most jurisdictions with FoP can get very well by without such a clause, and it is hard to see what benefit it creates for the public, or actually even for any private rightsholders.
Best,
Raul, working on FoP in Estonia
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi all,
@Jens: Thx for the warm welcome. The settling in is not quite done yet. I'm still watching/learning and trying to tend to urgent things on the way. The justice ministry is high on the meeting agenda, a direct contact to the head of their copyright unit exists. Their ideas and initiatives around exceptions & limitations definitely touch on Wikiprojects. Any concrete suggestions welcome. Main items on this year's WMDE work plan regarding lawmaking are public works, freedom of panorama, database directive and ancillary publichers right, the three last of which happen mainly on the EU level as yet.
Best John
2016-06-01 8:01 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com:
Hi,
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one
aspect of
this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible
focus
which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level*
Mathias
- (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
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Hi Raul,
no opening discussion there yet. The time for it in Germany would be after (and if) the EU FoP harmonisation calls for opening the issue nationally. In practice the limitation on "from public grouds, ground level" has not lead to too much uncertainty IIRC, the Hundertwasserhaus case being an exception. That said, private drones becoming ever more popular definitely will open this discussion again. So maybe we should focus on things like interior of public buildings, which are also not covered under FoP in Germany.
Greetz John
2016-06-01 14:20 GMT+02:00 Raul Veede raul.veede@gmail.com:
Hi.
Has there been any discussion about possibly (re)opening the question of the clause limiting FoP that demands that the pictures should be taken _from_ a public place? It could be argued this creates complications for businesses (as clearly demonstrated by the Hundertwasser case) and has potential for unlimited amount of uncertainty (the place where the photographer stood usually remains unseen on the picture itself, so the legality is hard to determine afterwords, especially on the Internet, e.g. on Commons). Most jurisdictions with FoP can get very well by without such a clause, and it is hard to see what benefit it creates for the public, or actually even for any private rightsholders.
Best,
Raul, working on FoP in Estonia
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi all,
@Jens: Thx for the warm welcome. The settling in is not quite done yet. I'm still watching/learning and trying to tend to urgent things on the way. The justice ministry is high on the meeting agenda, a direct contact to the head of their copyright unit exists. Their ideas and initiatives around exceptions & limitations definitely touch on Wikiprojects. Any concrete suggestions welcome. Main items on this year's WMDE work plan regarding lawmaking are public works, freedom of panorama, database directive and ancillary publichers right, the three last of which happen mainly on the EU level as yet.
Best John
2016-06-01 8:01 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com :
Hi,
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one
aspect of
this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible
focus
which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level*
Mathias
- (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
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Interiors might be hard to achieve because interior FoP tends to make the artists nervous. I'm still surprised we got the interior artists on board, but that's because we took a strong stand for the attribution which is a major problem for all kinds of artists, including Wikipedian photographers. We also conceded museums and galleries to the artists, just for the psychological comfort.
r On 1 Jun 2016 17:26, "John Hendrik Weitzmann" john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Raul,
no opening discussion there yet. The time for it in Germany would be after (and if) the EU FoP harmonisation calls for opening the issue nationally. In practice the limitation on "from public grouds, ground level" has not lead to too much uncertainty IIRC, the Hundertwasserhaus case being an exception. That said, private drones becoming ever more popular definitely will open this discussion again. So maybe we should focus on things like interior of public buildings, which are also not covered under FoP in Germany.
Greetz John
2016-06-01 14:20 GMT+02:00 Raul Veede raul.veede@gmail.com:
Hi.
Has there been any discussion about possibly (re)opening the question of the clause limiting FoP that demands that the pictures should be taken _from_ a public place? It could be argued this creates complications for businesses (as clearly demonstrated by the Hundertwasser case) and has potential for unlimited amount of uncertainty (the place where the photographer stood usually remains unseen on the picture itself, so the legality is hard to determine afterwords, especially on the Internet, e.g. on Commons). Most jurisdictions with FoP can get very well by without such a clause, and it is hard to see what benefit it creates for the public, or actually even for any private rightsholders.
Best,
Raul, working on FoP in Estonia
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann < john.weitzmann@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi all,
@Jens: Thx for the warm welcome. The settling in is not quite done yet. I'm still watching/learning and trying to tend to urgent things on the way. The justice ministry is high on the meeting agenda, a direct contact to the head of their copyright unit exists. Their ideas and initiatives around exceptions & limitations definitely touch on Wikiprojects. Any concrete suggestions welcome. Main items on this year's WMDE work plan regarding lawmaking are public works, freedom of panorama, database directive and ancillary publichers right, the three last of which happen mainly on the EU level as yet.
Best John
2016-06-01 8:01 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler@gmail.com
:
Hi,
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one
aspect of
this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible
focus
which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement exceptions not listed there. The current German government has announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright would require some legislation on the EU level*
Mathias
- (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
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