Well done Douglas. This will be a big step forward, because all our current work-arround continue to leave us exposed too.
Kindest Regards, _______________________________________ *Dumisani Ndubane* ( Pr. Techni ) - 201630204 Electrical Engineering Technician (N Dip), UNISA Cell: +27 74 587 8616 On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just in case an email I sent earlier did not go through because of a pdf > attachment I have sent this one as well. > > Yesterday Wikimedia South Africa made a written submission to the > parliament of South Africa urging that a Freedom of Panorama clause be > included in any new version of the South African Copyright Act. We are > hoping to give an oral testimony before parliament so as to explain why > such a clause should be included into the act. > > You can also see the submission on commons at the link here: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ZA_submission_to_ > the_Parliementory_comittee_on_Trade_and_Industry_-_7_July_2017.pdf > > Both the Wikimedia ZA board > <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board_Meeting_12_December_2016> as well as > the broader editing community > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_South_Africa# > Copyright_Act_amendment> > in > South Africa voted unanimously to for us to advocate for Freedom of Panama > in South Africa. In support of this effort we also ran a banner campaign > (see landing page here > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA>) on Wikipedia > in South Africa which collected 720 petition signatures > <https://www.change.org/p/ahermans-parliament-gov-za- > freedom-of-panorama-in-south-africa> > . > > Hopefully we will be given a chance to present to Parliament in early > August on the matter just before this year's Wikimania in Canada. > > Regards, > > Douglas. > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
