Court will meet and probably decide in Karlsruhe on Oct31st (yes, pre-Halloween). we're looking forward to the treat.
Best, Bernd Am Do., 28. Juni 2018 um 03:24 Uhr schrieb Jacob Rogers < [email protected]>: > Hi Ryan, > > This is a good example of the old expression "the wheels of justice turn > slowly." We did appeal the case, but we haven't had anything else to say > about it in the interim at the Foundation. Germany, like the U.S., has only > one high court and they take a long while to do anything. And work on this > kind of case is mostly us internally tweaking documents and then waiting. > It's still around though and we're hoping that the BGH reconsiders it on > appeal. > > Best, > Jacob > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 6:12 PM Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Two years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland lost an >> important case against the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Germany,[1] but >> according to the press, we were intending to appeal the decision.[2] Since >> then, I haven't heard anything else about the case. Did we ever proceed >> with an appeal? >> >> 1. >> https://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/06/21/erklaerung-zum-fall-reiss-engelhorn-museen/ >> 2. >> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/digitising-public-domain-images-creates-a-new-copyright-germany/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Publicpolicy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >> > > > -- > > Jacob Rogers > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged > information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please > delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the > Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice > to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff > members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see > our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > -- Bernd Fiedler Projektmanager Politik project manager public policy Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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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