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/
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