It sounds to me that we need more lobby in each country and Brussels with the European
Union to get in the whole union freedom of panorama.
I noticed that Wikimedia France is working on that matter. We in Belgium try to set up a
chapter and then we also want to work on that matter. I think we stand stronger in this
position if we work together.
Greetings - Romaine
--- On Sun, 9/2/12, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Cristian Consonni
<kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Some statistics
To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition"
<wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 11:57 PM
2012/9/2 Racso <racso(a)colombia.com>om>:
Algo más: southtyrol aparece como país, pero
hasta
donde tengo entendido
esas imágenes son parte de WLM Italia.
Ciao Oscar,
the point is the following:
* Last year Italy didn't participate for legal difficulties
related to
the fact that Italian law requires an authorisation for
taking photos
of anything considered "Cultural Heritage" (in Italy, we
don't have
Panorama freedom). We contacted the Ministry of Arts and
Cultural
Heritage and tried to find a solution but with little luck.
You may
ask if the problem persist and the answer is yes, but we are
close to
a partial solution with the Ministry this year, which I hope
will come
in the next few days. (I say "partial" because as you can
see here[1]
we have a limited list of monuments which can participate in
Wiki
Loves Monuments, which are the ones for which we have got an
explicit
authorisation. Without dwelling too much into the legal
details, the
problem is not about the copyright of the photo, but about
the
possible use that Italian law permits of a photo which
depicts a
monument, in particular if you want to use a photo in print
for
commercial purpose, you have to ask for an additional
permission which
is granted individually to a person (the editor), and for a
given
publication upon payment of an amount of money).
* Last year, though, South Tyrol participated in Wiki Loves
Monuments
with the Austrian Chapter. In fact the Trentino Alto-Adige
region in
Italy is a "regione a statuto speciale" and in particular
the
"provincia autonoma di Bolzano" is a "provincia autonoma"
meaning that
they have more autonomy (Alto Adige is the Italian name of
South
Tirol). So a local group of volunteers coordinated to
participate in
WLM and they choose Austria since Austria was participating
in WLM and
Italy not. Also, in South Tirol German is an official
language. I
don't know what was the status of the monuments which
participated for
South Tyrol last year with regard of the authorisation
problem, but if
I'm correct the volunteers that contacted us this year said
they were
in contact with some local institution. So I'm not sure
about that.
We have a similar situation with monuments in the city of
Alghero-L'Alguer in Sardinia, with monuments that are
participating in
the catalan Wiki Loves Monuments (i.e. WLM Andorra, if I'm
correct).
Needless to say, we would like to have this monuments
participate in
the Italian contest, but we need the permissions for all the
monuments
and then they could not participate in another contest since
that
would be unfair.
Cristian
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1]http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progetto:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2…
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