Hi,
Julia Reda, a MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for the German Pirate Party has released a report[1] regarding copyright in the EU and demanding "an ambitious reform agenda for the overhaul of EU copyright"[2].
A shorter version with the most important points is the press release: [2] https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/
This work has followed the public consultation on copyright that many people (and also associations, including some Wikimedia chapters) have answered[3] in the past months.
From [1] you can also see the work of Dimitar Dimitrov and the Free
Knowledge Advocacy Group EU[4], and of other free knowledge organisations in Europe as the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and "La Quadrature du Net" from France.
Well done, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU!
Cristian
[1]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/report-eu-copyright-rules-maladapted-to-the-web... [2] https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/ [3] https://juliareda.eu/2014/08/the-european-copyright-divide/ [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Statement_of_Intent
Cristian Consonni, 22/01/2015 02:29:
A shorter version with the most important points is the press release: [2]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/
There's also a short summary at http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-news-pirate-party-mep-julia.ht... And at https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240 everyone can comment and make proposals for the EU parliament committee.
Nemo
Hi all,
I'm new to this mailing list (mainly active on en-Wikipedia over the past ten years or so), so apologies if this is not the right place to ask this.
I've been catching up with posts to this mailing list since I started subscribing back in December 2014, and this thread on proposed changes to the EU copyright rules is one that I'd like to follow up on and find out what progress has been made and what the Wikimedia movement and individuals can do to help. I'd be particularly interested in whether it might be possible for changes to be made to the Freedom of Panorama restrictions, which is one of the things that would really help with some of the topics I work on over at Commons (mainly images of war memorials in France). If changes were possible, what sort of timescale would we be looking at? Several years at least?
Carcharoth
On 1/22/15, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Cristian Consonni, 22/01/2015 02:29:
A shorter version with the most important points is the press release: [2]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/
There's also a short summary at http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-news-pirate-party-mep-julia.ht... And at https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240 everyone can comment and make proposals for the EU parliament committee.
Nemo
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I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-)
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On 3 March 2015 at 00:22, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new to this mailing list (mainly active on en-Wikipedia over the past ten years or so), so apologies if this is not the right place to ask this.
I've been catching up with posts to this mailing list since I started subscribing back in December 2014, and this thread on proposed changes to the EU copyright rules is one that I'd like to follow up on and find out what progress has been made and what the Wikimedia movement and individuals can do to help. I'd be particularly interested in whether it might be possible for changes to be made to the Freedom of Panorama restrictions, which is one of the things that would really help with some of the topics I work on over at Commons (mainly images of war memorials in France). If changes were possible, what sort of timescale would we be looking at? Several years at least?
Carcharoth
On 1/22/15, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Cristian Consonni, 22/01/2015 02:29:
A shorter version with the most important points is the press release: [2]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/
There's also a short summary at
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-news-pirate-party-mep-julia.ht...
And at https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240 everyone can comment and make proposals for the EU parliament committee.
Nemo
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2015-03-03 18:45 GMT+02:00 Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk:
I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-)
Why off-list? :)
Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing.
My2c, Strainu
On Wednesday, 4 March 2015, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing.
That would be the "advocacy advisors" list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors
-Liam / Wittylama
Greetings,
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
That would be the "advocacy advisors" list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors
-Liam / Wittylama
I can strongly encourage anyone interested in that topic to join the advocacy advisors list.
Additionally, I want to point out that MEP Julia Reda has send in a submission for the 2015 Wikimania on this very topic. https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Copyright_reform_in_the...
While the submission process is going its way, you might want to bookmark it or put your ~~~~ in the "Interested attendees" part.
Mathias -- Mathias SCHINDLER | Local Assistant Bundestagsbüro Julia REDA, MdEP Unter den Linden 50 | Tel. +49 30 227-74223 10117 Berlin, Deutschland | Fax +49 30 227-76561 julia.reda-office2@europarl.europa.eu
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