Dear Pavlo,

I hope you are well, considering. 

I will follow up directly to discuss how my team can support you but, for the benefit of this list, I wanted to share a compilation of articles arguing for open access in museums - see below. Many of them are written by museum staff so they have cut-through with that audience. 

I think your strongest arguments are 1. cultural heritage preservation ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") and 2. harmonization with the EU. As you likely know, the adoption of Article 14 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive says that works in the public domain should remain in the public domain once digitised:
https://pro.europeana.eu/post/keeping-digitised-works-in-the-public-domain-how-the-copyright-directive-makes-it-a-reality

I'm sure you're already familiar with Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO). A selection of their international press coverage would be a good addition to an advocacy pack: https://www.sucho.org/press

A Diff article by João Alexandre Peschanski considers the role of Wikimedia Commons in crisis response: 
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/09/10/national-museum-brazil-fire/

Greatest hits of open GLAM advocacy:
Speak soon,
Fiona

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 17:38, Павло Костін <pavlo.kostin@wikimedia.org.ua> wrote:

Hello all,


My name is Pavlo Kostin, I am an advocacy manager of Wikimedia Ukraine, responsible for freedom of panorama advocacy efforts. Due to the start of the full-fledged invasion of the Russian Federation, we had to suspend our advocacy efforts regarding freedom of panorama in Ukraine. As you can imagine, a copyright reform is not the main focus of legislators now, as there are more urgent issues related to the ongoing war. Wikimedia Ukraine is currently working on making more systemic outreach efforts to get the content distributed online by Ukrainian state institutions, museums and cultural institutions published under free licenses.


We are sure that such efforts were done by others in the Movement before, so we wanted to check if any of them are available to be used as inspiration, or maybe only a translation is needed. We would be grateful if you can share any materials used for facilitating the transfer of the above-listed institutions and partner organizations to free licenses.


Among such materials, there might be the instructions outlining steps these institutions should undertake to switch to a relevant license; infographics and presentations for representatives of these institutions to explain the benefits of free licensing for them; explanatory notes etc. 


We would be glad for any piece of information or advice shared so that we can use it in our advocacy efforts.


If you want to contact me privately, reach out to pavlo.kostin@wikimedia.org.ua


Thank you!


Best regards,

Pavlo Kostin

Advocacy Manager

Wikimedia Ukraine


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