@Emeric: Excusé my bad French, I tried to understand the blog post ... is point 1. something like antiquities laws in mediterranean countries, only extended to all things "national heritage"?
2016-06-22 13:41 GMT+02:00 Jan Gerlach <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Referent für Politik und Recht Legal and Policy Advisor Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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