Hey Jan, Thanks for your (and many other people's) hard work on this! I'm excited that we get another chance to try and improve the directive. I hope that in addition to keeping the bad parts out, we are pushing to get more good stuff in (i.e. the Article 5 stuff). Like fixing the wording around preventing sweat-of-the-brow copyrights, and maybe, just maybe, getting freedom of panorama included. I know it's all a long shot, but I feel like the tables have turned a bit in our favor. I hope the momentum stays in that direction!
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Jan Gerlach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with many of our > European communities, took action[1] in June and July opposing a flawed > copyright proposal which would have threatened freedom of expression, > collaboration, and access to knowledge online. This proposal was rejected > by the European Parliament on July 5, which means that an earlier draft > text of the EU Copyright Directive is open once again for amendments, to be > voted on in a plenary session on September 12. The EU Parliament's > rejection of the JURI version is a great step, but our efforts to achieve a > balanced copyright law for Europe are not over. > > Amendments will have to be proposed by Members of the European Parliament > by September 5, just one week before the September 12 plenary vote. Because > of this quick turnaround, it will be difficult to know for certain which > amendments will be tabled. Over the upcoming weeks, it will be important > for Wikimedia to promote a modern copyright framework and the Wikimedia > Foundation will be preparing for different scenarios, promoting our vision > of an open internet, and creating materials for the community to use should > they choose to engage in any further advocacy. > > I will be sending updates regularly to you all about our policy efforts as > well as news about any other important developments. In the meantime, > please get in touch with me if you want to get involved or if there is > anything we can help you with. > > We look forward to updating you soon on our next steps! > > > Best, > Jan > > > [1] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/05/european-parliament-votes-against-copyright-proposal/ > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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