Hello Rubin,
that sounds like great news indeed, congratulations! We can surely highlight this on the social media channels, but I was wondering if someone from WMRU would like to write up a somewhat longer English-language summary in form of a blog post (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts )? It seems to me that it might be difficult to understand the changes and their context from reading just the tweet and the list of documents at the given link (http://wikimedia.ru/initiatives ), even for Russian speakers. By the way, some of the chapter's work was mentioned in this earlier blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/22/stanislav-kozlovskiy-profile/
Let us know if such a blog post sounds like a good idea to you, or whether you prefer just to go with social media messages for now.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 6:03 AM, rubin rubin@wikimedia.ru wrote:
Hello!
We have great news: WM-RU lobbied changes to the Russian legislature and we kindly ask you to share this news worldwide via "Wikipedia" account :)
News for twitter:
Thanks to @Wikimedia_RU freedom of panorama and free licenses are supported by Russia law now! http://goo.gl/pS31JW
News for Facebook:
Starting from October 1, 2014 Russian legislature supports free licenses and freedom of panorama!
The work of Wikimedia-RU chapter on these amendments and their discussion with publishers and media companies who were completely against copyright liberalization lasted for nearly 5 years.
Finally, most of the proposed changes were approved and signed but members of WM-RU chapter are ready to continue their own work: http://goo.gl/erJkRM
Waiting for your comments, rubin
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