Hello everyone,
I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee *Friday 18 May, 9am*, National Parliament, Cape Town.
*To attend* the committee meeting, arrive by *08:30 this Friday*. Consult the schedule for Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, Report back by the subcommittee on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
This is the last scheduled meeting of the Committee on the Copyright Amendment Act. Scheduled for discussion is consideration of the creators rights issues in the Act, specifically rights to
- Parody and satire - Incidental use of background content - Use works in public places (Freedom of Panorama) - Digital archiving - Create educational works - Research, including through data mining, indexing and search - Remix, transform and re-interpret - Create accessible copies for people with disabilities - Fair dealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing and fair use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
I will also be attending to ensure that Freedom of Panorama https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA has made it in. As you know this is a very important issue to the South African editing community.
Fair Use is also an important issue and at Wikimedia ZA's last AGM we voted to support efforts to get the *fair dealing *clause amended to be replaced with a *fair use* clause so that editors are at less risk when editing Wikipedia. The basic difference between fair use and fair dealing is that fair use basically says you can use X so long as it does *not violate* a few conditions. Whilst fair dealing says you can use X so long as it *satisfies or adheres to* one or more of a list of conditions. Fair use is therefor easier for the public to understand and people to adhere to as it is more flexible whilst still protecting the rights of copyright holders.
There are concerns that the bill in its current form encourages both data hugging, private censorship, and exploitative behaviour by large rights holding monopolies and duopolies that is against the public interest.
Related to this: A coalition of South African digital creators and entrepreneurs -- called Re-Create -- will be attending the meeting and is inviting support for their declaration of principles for creator’s rights:
You can learn more about Re-Create by reading their statement here: http://tiny.cc/bt8gty
Please forward this on to anyone you feel might be interested in this.
Regards,
Douglas
Very important! I wish I could be there too, but I'll be arriving only a few days later.
Cheers,
A.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:53 PM Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee *Friday 18 May, 9am*, National Parliament, Cape Town.
*To attend* the committee meeting, arrive by *08:30 this Friday*. Consult the schedule for Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, Report back by the subcommittee on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
This is the last scheduled meeting of the Committee on the Copyright Amendment Act. Scheduled for discussion is consideration of the creators rights issues in the Act, specifically rights to
- Parody and satire
- Incidental use of background content
- Use works in public places (Freedom of Panorama)
- Digital archiving
- Create educational works
- Research, including through data mining, indexing and search
- Remix, transform and re-interpret
- Create accessible copies for people with disabilities
- Fair dealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing and fair
use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
I will also be attending to ensure that Freedom of Panorama https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA has made it in. As you know this is a very important issue to the South African editing community.
Fair Use is also an important issue and at Wikimedia ZA's last AGM we voted to support efforts to get the *fair dealing *clause amended to be replaced with a *fair use* clause so that editors are at less risk when editing Wikipedia. The basic difference between fair use and fair dealing is that fair use basically says you can use X so long as it does *not violate* a few conditions. Whilst fair dealing says you can use X so long as it *satisfies or adheres to* one or more of a list of conditions. Fair use is therefor easier for the public to understand and people to adhere to as it is more flexible whilst still protecting the rights of copyright holders.
There are concerns that the bill in its current form encourages both data hugging, private censorship, and exploitative behaviour by large rights holding monopolies and duopolies that is against the public interest.
Related to this: A coalition of South African digital creators and entrepreneurs -- called Re-Create -- will be attending the meeting and is inviting support for their declaration of principles for creator’s rights:
You can learn more about Re-Create by reading their statement here: http://tiny.cc/bt8gty
Please forward this on to anyone you feel might be interested in this.
Regards,
Douglas
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Thanks Douglas, I've added to Facebook and Twitter. It would help if others share and retweet on those channels as well.
On 16/05/2018 22:53, Douglas Scott wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee *Friday 18 May, 9am*, National Parliament, Cape Town.
*To attend* the committee meeting, arrive by *08:30 this Friday*. Consult the schedule for Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, Report back by the subcommittee on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
This is the last scheduled meeting of the Committee on the Copyright Amendment Act. Scheduled for discussion is consideration of the creators rights issues in the Act, specifically rights to
- Parody and satire - Incidental use of background content - Use works in public places (Freedom of Panorama) - Digital archiving - Create educational works - Research, including through data mining, indexing and search - Remix, transform and re-interpret - Create accessible copies for people with disabilities - Fair dealing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing> and fair use <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use>
I will also be attending to ensure that Freedom of Panorama https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA has made it in. As you know this is a very important issue to the South African editing community.
Fair Use is also an important issue and at Wikimedia ZA's last AGM we voted to support efforts to get the *fair dealing *clause amended to be replaced with a *fair use* clause so that editors are at less risk when editing Wikipedia. The basic difference between fair use and fair dealing is that fair use basically says you can use X so long as it does *not violate* a few conditions. Whilst fair dealing says you can use X so long as it *satisfies or adheres to* one or more of a list of conditions. Fair use is therefor easier for the public to understand and people to adhere to as it is more flexible whilst still protecting the rights of copyright holders.
There are concerns that the bill in its current form encourages both data hugging, private censorship, and exploitative behaviour by large rights holding monopolies and duopolies that is against the public interest.
Related to this: A coalition of South African digital creators and entrepreneurs -- called Re-Create -- will be attending the meeting and is inviting support for their declaration of principles for creator’s rights:
You can learn more about Re-Create by reading their statement here: http://tiny.cc/bt8gty
Please forward this on to anyone you feel might be interested in this.
Regards,
Douglas
Ian,
Could you share links to the tweets? I will most definitely retweet.
Where did you get my e-mail address, Ian? I regard this as an invasion of privacy. I pioneered the use of computers and the interent in an academic environment almost 40 years ago, but have never seen the point of getting involved in so-called s"social media" and similar juvenile excrement.
I am marking your posts as spam. So please spare me any further attempts at communication
Sam van den Berg
On 17 May 2018 at 11:33, Ian Gilfillan wikimediaza@greenman.co.za wrote:
Thanks Douglas, I've added to Facebook and Twitter. It would help if others share and retweet on those channels as well.
On 16/05/2018 22:53, Douglas Scott wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee *Friday 18 May, 9am*, National Parliament, Cape Town.
*To attend* the committee meeting, arrive by *08:30 this Friday*. Consult the schedule for Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, Report back by the subcommittee on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
This is the last scheduled meeting of the Committee on the Copyright Amendment Act. Scheduled for discussion is consideration of the creators rights issues in the Act, specifically rights to
- Parody and satire - Incidental use of background content - Use works in public places (Freedom of Panorama) - Digital archiving - Create educational works - Research, including through data mining, indexing and search - Remix, transform and re-interpret - Create accessible copies for people with disabilities - Fair dealing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing> and fair
use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
I will also be attending to ensure that Freedom of Panorama https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA has made it in. As you know this is a very important issue to the South African editing community.
Fair Use is also an important issue and at Wikimedia ZA's last AGM we voted to support efforts to get the *fair dealing *clause amended to be replaced with a *fair use* clause so that editors are at less risk when editing Wikipedia. The basic difference between fair use and fair dealing is that fair use basically says you can use X so long as it does *not violate* a few conditions. Whilst fair dealing says you can use X so long as it *satisfies or adheres to* one or more of a list of conditions. Fair use is therefor easier for the public to understand and people to adhere to as it is more flexible whilst still protecting the rights of copyright holders.
There are concerns that the bill in its current form encourages both data hugging, private censorship, and exploitative behaviour by large rights holding monopolies and duopolies that is against the public interest.
Related to this: A coalition of South African digital creators and entrepreneurs -- called Re-Create -- will be attending the meeting and is inviting support for their declaration of principles for creator’s rights:
You can learn more about Re-Create by reading their statement here: http://tiny.cc/bt8gty
Please forward this on to anyone you feel might be interested in this.
Regards,
Douglas
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