Where did you get my e-mail address, Ian? I regard this as an invasion of privacy. I pioneered the use of computers and the interent in an academic environment almost 40 years ago, but have never seen the point of getting involved in so-called s\"social media" and similar juvenile excrement.
I am marking your posts as spam. So please spare me any further attempts at communication Sam van den Berg On 17 May 2018 at 11:33, Ian Gilfillan <wikimedi...@greenman.co.za> wrote: > Thanks Douglas, I've added to Facebook and Twitter. It would help if > others share and retweet on those channels as well. > > On 16/05/2018 22:53, Douglas Scott 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to wikimediaza-unsubscr...@lists.wikimedia.org
