Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Freedom of Panorama | Wikimedia ZA submission to parliement

Hello everyone, Yesterday Wikimedia South Africa made the attached written submission to the parliament of South Africa urging that a Freedom of Panorama clause be included in any new version of the South African Copyright Act. We are hoping to give an oral testimony before parliament so as to explain why such a clause should be included into the act. You can also see the submission on commons at the link here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ZA_submission_to_the_ Parliementory_comittee_on_Trade_and_Industry_-_7_July_2017.pdf Both the Wikimedia ZA board <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board_Meeting_12_December_2016> as well as the broader editing community <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_Africa# Copyright_Act_amendment> in South Africa voted unanimously to for us to advocate for Freedom of Panama in South Africa. In support of this effort we also ran a banner campaign (see landing page here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA>) on Wikipedia in South Africa which collected 720 petition signatures <https://www.change.org/p/ahermans-parliament-gov-za- freedom-of-panorama-in-south-africa> . Hopefully we will be given a chance to present to Parliament in early August on the matter just before this year's Wikimania in Canada. Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. wikimedia.org