Hi, Sorry for the OT, but I feel that this is worth sharing. An amendment to the Freedom of Panorama legislation in Europe has hit the headlines lately and threatens the rights of ordinary citizens to take and share pictures of buildings in Europe. UKIP (predictably) are totally against it, but the story has been picked up by a number of media outlets including the Telegraph and the Independent, so it clearly could be a problem. A fairly balanced view of the situation is given in the link below and their take is that the amendment may never be passed into law: https://fullfact.org/factcheck/europe/eu_freedom_panorama-46045[1]
My view is that if there is a way for politicians to screw things up then they will. Wikipedia thinks there is a potential problem: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015/Learn_ more[2] and I think that the unintended consequences might do little more than make the lawyers fat(ter). Wikipedia (and others) suggest that we write to our MEPs if we think there is an issue. Hopefully our MEPs aren't stupid, but if no-one tells them that we care, they may not even bother to vote. Our MEPs can be contacted through: https://www.writetothem.com/[3] Over to you! -- Terry Coles -------- [1] https://fullfact.org/factcheck/europe/eu_freedom_panorama-46045 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015/Learn_ more [3] https://www.writetothem.com/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-07-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
