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 > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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