[Advocacy Advisors] Freedom of Panorama Compromise Amendment Off

[Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov]

Good morning, everybody!

The Freedom of Panorama compromise amendment that we were working on for
the past months and that looked like a very likely scenario is off now.
This isn't good news. At the end, even the UK Conservatives tried to save
it. This is somewhat positive. However, not enough shadows signed off on
it.

This means that now we're back to the original text of the report, which
reads:

#16
Calls on the EU legislator to ensure that the use of photographs, video
footage or other images of works which are permanently located in public
places is permitted;

The risk is that amendments filed by a number of MEPs from the largest
groups will be voted on. These include "non-commercial":

AM 415/422/423 (identical)
#16
*Invites* the EU legislator to *recognise* that the use of photographs,
video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in
*physical* public places is permitted *and should be considered to be in
the public domain, where that use is for a non-commercial purpose or scale;*

The legal affairs committee (JURI) has 24 voting members, which means we
need 12 people against to be sure they won't pass and the original text
stands. Counting abstentions probably even fewer than 12 no votes will be
enough, but let's aim for the full dozen.

The vote is next Tuesday. The fact that the AM is legally incoherent should
help us bring up some additional good arguments against. I will be
contacting the Europeans among you with more specific briefs on who to call
and what to say.

Cheers,
Dimi
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