It sounds to me that we need more lobby in each country and Brussels with the European Union to get in the whole union freedom of panorama.
I noticed that Wikimedia France is working on that matter. We in Belgium try to set up a chapter and then we also want to work on that matter. I think we stand stronger in this position if we work together. Greetings - Romaine --- On Sun, 9/2/12, Cristian Consonni <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Cristian Consonni <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Some statistics > To: "Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition" > <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 11:57 PM > 2012/9/2 Racso <[email protected]>: > > Algo más: southtyrol aparece como país, pero hasta > donde tengo entendido > > esas imágenes son parte de WLM Italia. > > Ciao Oscar, > the point is the following: > * Last year Italy didn't participate for legal difficulties > related to > the fact that Italian law requires an authorisation for > taking photos > of anything considered "Cultural Heritage" (in Italy, we > don't have > Panorama freedom). We contacted the Ministry of Arts and > Cultural > Heritage and tried to find a solution but with little luck. > You may > ask if the problem persist and the answer is yes, but we are > close to > a partial solution with the Ministry this year, which I hope > will come > in the next few days. (I say "partial" because as you can > see here[1] > we have a limited list of monuments which can participate in > Wiki > Loves Monuments, which are the ones for which we have got an > explicit > authorisation. Without dwelling too much into the legal > details, the > problem is not about the copyright of the photo, but about > the > possible use that Italian law permits of a photo which > depicts a > monument, in particular if you want to use a photo in print > for > commercial purpose, you have to ask for an additional > permission which > is granted individually to a person (the editor), and for a > given > publication upon payment of an amount of money). > * Last year, though, South Tyrol participated in Wiki Loves > Monuments > with the Austrian Chapter. In fact the Trentino Alto-Adige > region in > Italy is a "regione a statuto speciale" and in particular > the > "provincia autonoma di Bolzano" is a "provincia autonoma" > meaning that > they have more autonomy (Alto Adige is the Italian name of > South > Tirol). So a local group of volunteers coordinated to > participate in > WLM and they choose Austria since Austria was participating > in WLM and > Italy not. Also, in South Tirol German is an official > language. I > don't know what was the status of the monuments which > participated for > South Tyrol last year with regard of the authorisation > problem, but if > I'm correct the volunteers that contacted us this year said > they were > in contact with some local institution. So I'm not sure > about that. > > We have a similar situation with monuments in the city of > Alghero-L'Alguer in Sardinia, with monuments that are > participating in > the catalan Wiki Loves Monuments (i.e. WLM Andorra, if I'm > correct). > > Needless to say, we would like to have this monuments > participate in > the Italian contest, but we need the permissions for all the > monuments > and then they could not participate in another contest since > that > would be unfair. > > Cristian > > [1]http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Progetto:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Monumenti > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
