+1 Congratulations on this success. Also the aspect of the possible benefit for visibility of art by women is good to see. A mapping of the development of the efforts of Wikimedians in this field would also be great.
best wishes from Berlin Lilli Am Do., 1. Dez. 2022 um 10:38 Uhr schrieb Franziska Putz < [email protected]>: > 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] >> > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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