Hi everybody,
Thank you Nemo for your good wishes! I am really looking forward doing this full time and
working with all of you!
I have just started looking into WLPA and the legal aspects but for me the first logical
step seem to be to identify what we lack knowledge about and need to
get a deeper understanding of. To do so I created a list on WMSE's wiki where you can
write up any legal questions that you think is relevant when organizing the competition.
Should the list include any more fields or something, please help out and change it. When
we have a few though questions I will bring them to Europeana and see if they can help us
out answering them (they have something like an judicial help desk for their partner
organizations (of which WMSE is one) where we can send questions). I think that this is a
really good opportunity to get some straight answers to what we can and cannot instead of
endless discussions and guesses on what is and isn't allowed.
Also, I have a few good news! I talked about the idea of organizing this competition with
a number of people at the Europeana Plenary in Leuven (which I attended last week together
with two other people from WMSE ) and I received very positive responses. Amongst other a
representative from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Greece showed great
interest in cooperating with us on this. To cultivate this we would of course need someone
from Greece to carry the torch and get in contact with them. Is there anyone from Greece
on this list that would be interested in helping out with this? Do you know anyone that
might?
Finally, if you are at all interested in helping out with organizing this competition in
your home country, please write me an email about it! It would be great if we could start
working with this a little bit as soon as possible to make the most out of the event and
not miss any opportunities!
Thank you for your help,
John Andersson
Wikimedia Sweden
Event Manager, Europeana Awareness
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:03:44 +0200
From: nemowiki(a)gmail.com
To: wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The Europeana Awareness project and Wikimedia Sweden
John Andersson, 24/05/2012 10:10:
All of this is however something that we
obviously will have
to discuss further. Finally, if some countries' copyright legislation
just makes Wiki Loves Public Art impossible we will just have to leave
those countries out for now and hope that they will change their
legislation in the future!
Now that your work period has started (good luck!), can you already give
us some info/finding from the legislation analysis? (That is, what
countries are problematic or how laws can be worked around.)
Nemo
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