Doesn't this also mean there would be more pressure in fixing the NC FoP as
the harmonised minimum across EU?

I'm not sure what would be the exact meaning of "particuliers". A legal
comment, anyone?

Also, what is the actual extent of "œuvres" - buildings, sculptures, street
art, information graphics...?

Raul

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, everybody!
>
> The Senate in Paris just agreed to pass a new exception into French
> copyright law. They agreed on the importance of Freedom of Panorama, but
> only for non-commercial purposes. The text reads "œuvres en permanence sur
> la voie publique réalisées par des particuliers à des fins non lucratives".
> A large part of the discussion was revolving around the question whether
> "voie publique" and "particuliers" and "non lucrative" are terms that
> provide sufficient legal security.
>
> As in Brussels, in Paris it was the visual artists (ADAGP) and Wikimedia
> that ran the campaign. The three French architects associations remained
> surprinsingly quiet. One major change is the official position of the
> French government. Initially they were against any new copyright exception.
> Now Minister Lemaire confirmed that the French government had changed its
> position and regards the FoP exception favourably in its NC version.
>
> Well, it is not the ultimate win, but  we managed to establish an new
> copyright exception in France, which is huge. Thanks to Myriam, Nathalie,
> Samuel and everyone else at Wikimédia France for running such an efficient
> and well coordinated campaign.
>
> The game in Brussels has greatly changed with this, as the main opposing
> force was indeed the French government. A possible European solution could
> now be to stablish a harmonised minimum FoP while allowing Member States to
> go further. An interesting question for us would be if this FoP baseline
> could get rid of the antiquity laws.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimi
>
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