[Advocacy Advisors] Commissioner on copyright reform and FoP

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Definitely viny :)




2014-07-05 11:15 GMT+02:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:

> 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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