This is great news!!! What a success story to share.
@Eric I would love to reach back out in 2023. I'm thinking of kicking off a mapping of the Copyright advocacy work that Wikimedians have done over the past few years, including convening calls in which individuals can talk about their specific efforts and experiences, as well as collecting materials that we can compile into one big resource for everyone. It would be great to collect your learnings and also to have you present your experience at one of these sessions! All the best, Ziski On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 9:23 AM Eric Luth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The Swedish parliament just voted (a few hours ago) on the final > implementation of the EU Copyright Directive in Swedish law. The vote > passed, which of course embeds all the issues with the EU Copyright > Directive in Swedish law, but also brings the good parts. > > I'd especially like to mention one thing that I'm very happy that we > succeeded with in our advocacy: to broaden the so called Article 14, often > phrased as the the 'safeguarding of the public domain', in the Swedish > implementation. > > The EU Copyright Directive states that no new copyright or related right > can be applied on digitizations / digital reproductions of 'works of visual > art' – a practice which has been fairly common in Sweden. Based on our > feedback and advocacy towards Swedish government and parliament, it was > however broadened to 'works of art', which certainly includes everything in > the grey zone between what could be defined as work of art and work of > visual art respectively (such as applied arts, handicraft, probably also > manuscripts etc.). > > In Sweden, the creation of the kinds of art works just mentioned have > historically been dominated by women – which also means that we have a much > stronger legal framework for making women's art visible online in Sweden. > > This will mean a whole new opportunity for working with the digitization > of the Swedish cultural heritage. > > Happy to reply to any questions on this (or anything else about the > Swedish implementation, of course). > > Best, > *Eric Luth* > Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and > Advocacy > Wikimedia Sverige > [email protected] > +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 > > Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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