Fantastic news! Kudos to Dimi and everyone else who worked hard to promote this. :)
A. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Great news! > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament. > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial > use. > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored on > Commons. > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you > updated on that.) > > > Article in the news in Dutch: > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852 > > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for > Wikipedia. > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a > priority for us. > > Thanks all for the support! > > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too! > > Greetings from Belgium, > Romaine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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