Hi, Just so you know, most offices in the Parliament are out until the week of August 20, and even that is a "green" week (meaning most MEP's are in their home country). This means that it will be a very short and intense period leading up to the next Strasbourg session.
/Jan Ainali Accredited Parliamentary Assistant to Max Andersson, Greens/EFA On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 01:01 Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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