I'm very glad such capable and knowledgable people are working on this,
what can chapters and individual Wikimedians do to help?

Best

John

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 01:09, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/
>>>
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