Hi Emeric Thanks for letting us know about this very troubling development. After the recent success story for (Wikimedia) France this is a big step back.
Could you explain the second measure a little more? What would the search engine have to pay an fee for and do you see this targeting more than just search engines? Combined these measures seem like they would have negative implications for a lot of people and I imagine that building a larger (ad-hoc) alliance against them that includes photographers, platforms of all sorts, consumers could be a feasible and promising approach to prevent this? Curious to hear more about this! Best, Jan On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Emeric Vallespi < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends and fellow Wikimedians, > > French parliamentarians are going crazy: they're about to vote a Creation > Bill, which - we think - will seriously harm the Wikimedia projects and > free knowledge in general. > > It all began with fight for freedom of panorama in French Parliament last > winter. As you may know, right-holders associations heavily mobilized > against it, and got a lot of coverage. This first fight was just a tree > hiding the forest. With the Creation bill, two new measures are about to > privatize the public domain: > > 1. Very soon, it will not be legal anymore to upload pictures Castle of > Chambord, Versailles, etc on Wikimedia Commons. You can find the > explanation in this blog post (in French) : > http://blog.wikimedia.fr/copyfraud-sur-les-domaines-nationaux-9172 > > 2. Perhaps even more importantly, search engines will be charged with a > mandatory fee, which that puts on the same level all legal and illegal > images and totally violates the creative commons licenses... > > These two measures will be ratified by the French National Assembly. We > did everything we could at Wikimedia France to try to stop this madness. > > If you have any ideas on how to help us prevent such a disaster, please > don't hesitate to reach out to us, > > Best regards, > -- > Emeric Vallespi > Chairman > > Twitter @evallespi <https://twitter.com/evallespi> > > *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE* > Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance > *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>** @Wikimedia_Fr > <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_Fr>** <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_Fr>* > *40 rue de clery, **75002 Paris* > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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