[Advocacy Advisors] Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP

[Stevie Benton]

Hi Dimi,

I'm sure WMUK could arrange something like this. Are you thinking of having
it on some kind of vinyl, or just a paper poster of some kind?

Speak soon,

Stevie


On 3 July 2014 12:28, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is absolutely brilliant, Stevie! Romaine's image and the text you
> added next to it. Plus the story we have to tell with the EP Secretariat
> giving us permission to use it on Wikipedia only to figure out later that
> they don't the rights and thus can't allow us to use an image of their own
> building.
>
> Could WMUK or another chapter print this image with the text on a banner?
> 180x76cm would be enought. We could use it at events around Brussels to
> raise awareness in a very powerful way. I could even imagine an info-booth
> inside the Parliament.
>
>
> 2014-07-03 12:56 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:
>
> This is excellent! Progress may take time, but it's beginning to feel like
>> we are getting somewhere.
>>
>> I touch on the FoP issue in the upcoming Wikimedia UK annual review
>> booklet - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Wikimedia_AR_2014_v4.pdf -
>> in the section about advocacy. I use Romaine's excellent image of the
>> blacked out European Parliament.
>>
>> Let's keep pushing!
>>
>> Stevie
>>
>>
>> On 3 July 2014 11:48, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
>> dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Neelie Kores, outgoing Commissioner for the Digital Agenda held a speech
>>> at a conference in Amsterdam yesterday where she spoke about the need of
>>> the planned copyright reform. [1] Among other things, she said:
>>>
>>> *When you can't sing happy birthday, or post a picture of the Atomium,
>>> how is that fair or reasonable, how is that something you can explain to
>>> ordinary citizens?*
>>>
>>> Yes, it is an outgoing Commissioner and DG CONNECT is the not the lead
>>> DG for copyright, but this is the first time the European Commission said
>>> anything about Freedom of Panorama. I know for a fact that it was the
>>> members of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU and their constant talk to
>>> anyone about this issue how the Atomium example showed up on the radars of
>>> both DG CONNECT and DG MARKT. In this line of thought I just wanted to say:
>>> Thank you and great job, everyone!
>>>
>>> Let's make sure we keep FoP on the table. We actually have the great
>>> examples and stories to tell.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dimi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton

Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England
and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.
Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street,
London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a
global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

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