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/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Publicpolicy mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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