That is unfortunate. I just got off the phone with a journalist where I explained that we were, obviously, quite disappointed with the result and that we would continue to fight for a better free knowledge infrastructure in the future, as well as mentioning that we will be trying to protect the public domain in trilogue.
I've said this before, but I want to restate that you guys' hard work means a lot to the movement. Know that you have the support of and appreciations of thousands of Wikimedians whenever Brussels/Strasbourg becomes too depressing :) 2018-09-12 13:09 GMT+02:00 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < [email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Unfortunately the result was no good. > > Articles 11 (neighbouring right for press publications) and 13 (platform > liability) were carried in full as per EPP proposals. > > The Freedom of Panorama and User-Generated Content exceptions didn't make > it. > > The final mandate was adopted 438 votes in favor, 226 against and 39 > abstentions. > > The Parliament will now start the negotiations with the Council (trilogue) > based on this mandate. There we can work on "safeguarding the public > domain" and keeping the carve-out for non-for-profit platforms like ours > (which is both in the Parliament and in the Council position). > > There will be a final vote in the parliament plenary after the trilogue on > the the adoption of the final trilogue result. We cannot currently predict > a timeline for when this final plenary vote will be, but this will take > months. > > Thank you everyone for the efforts, help and support. Despite the bad news > you were great and against terrible odds we got the small improvements on > public domain and carve-outs that wouldn't have happened without all of > you. We need to remember that these are not our decisions to take in the > end and the best we can do is inform and convince, which we did as best as > we could. > > Anna & Dimi > > > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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