Very important! I wish I could be there too, but I'll be arriving only a
few days later.
Cheers,
A.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:53 PM Douglas Scott <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting
> of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee *Friday 18 May, 9am*, National
> Parliament, Cape Town.
>
> *To attend* the committee meeting, arrive by *08:30 this Friday*. Consult
> the schedule for Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, Report back by
> the subcommittee on the Copyright Amendment Bill.
>
> This is the last scheduled meeting of the Committee on the Copyright
> Amendment Act. Scheduled for discussion is consideration of the creators
> rights issues in the Act, specifically rights to
>
> - Parody and satire
> - Incidental use of background content
> - Use works in public places (Freedom of Panorama)
> - Digital archiving
> - Create educational works
> - Research, including through data mining, indexing and search
> - Remix, transform and re-interpret
> - Create accessible copies for people with disabilities
> - Fair dealing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing> and fair
> use
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use>
>
> I will also be attending to ensure that Freedom of Panorama
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_ZA> has made it
> in. As you know this is a very important issue to the South African
> editing community.
>
> Fair Use is also an important issue and at Wikimedia ZA's last AGM we voted
> to support efforts to get the *fair dealing *clause amended to be replaced
> with a *fair use* clause so that editors are at less risk when editing
> Wikipedia. The basic difference between fair use and fair dealing is that
> fair use basically says you can use X so long as it does *not violate* a
> few conditions. Whilst fair dealing says you can use X so long as it
> *satisfies
> or adheres to* one or more of a list of conditions. Fair use is therefor
> easier for the public to understand and people to adhere to as it is more
> flexible whilst still protecting the rights of copyright holders.
>
> There are concerns that the bill in its current form encourages both data
> hugging, private censorship, and exploitative behaviour by large rights
> holding monopolies and duopolies that is against the public interest.
>
> Related to this: A coalition of South African digital creators and
> entrepreneurs -- called Re-Create -- will be attending the meeting and is
> inviting support for their declaration of principles for creator’s rights:
>
> You can learn more about Re-Create by reading their statement here:
> http://tiny.cc/bt8gty
>
> Please forward this on to anyone you feel might be interested in this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas
>
> --
> Douglas Ian Scott
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> Skype: douglas0scott
> South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 <+27%2079%20515%208727>
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