I finally published my Medium thing about the FoP consultation this
morning.. If anyone wants to share it — or translate it, it's CC-Zero
licensed — then that would be proper awesome. (Lemme know about any
translations and I'll link to them.)
https://medium.com/@owenblacker/you-can-tell-europe-to-help-protect-street-…
For a handful of reasons, it's a week or two later than I'd hoped, but
hopefully not too late to get some traction. The UK digital rights
community is going to be a little preoccupied with our surveillance bill
going through Parliament today and tomorrow, but ORG should be pushing this
some on Wednesday.
I hope everyone is well and stuff!
Owen
English, Català, Castellano
Reactions to the European agenda on collaborative economy<http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/ind…>: "From the corporate collaborative economy to platform cooperativism" - Debate on 9th June, 18:30h Barcelona & online.
The European Commission presented on 2nd June the European agenda of collaborative economy<http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/ind…>, which establishes guidelines for Member States on how they should regulate and what should be the collaborative economy policy.
>From Procomuns.net - space for the promotion of commons collaborative economy - we would like to initiate a debate. Procomuns started as an event that brought together 400 people linked to experiences of collaborative economy in March 2016, in Barcelona, with the aim of defining public policies for commons collaborative economy. Unfortunately, the European agenda does not refer to the commons collaborative economy model. It mainly adopts the "unicorn" model as a reference of large corporations like Uber and Airbnb, without distinguishing models and without considering other kind like small businesses, free/libre technology and / or licenses that encourage open knowledge, like the digital commons model or platform cooperativism. They are different economic models for their formats and their impacts, and they require a different regulatory approach.
Moreover, the agenda does not pay enough attention to the dilemmas and the needs for protecting citizens producers and workers. It is positive that the Commission emphasizes the qualities of collaborative economy on environmental impacts; but is not considering that, apart from the impact on the natural environment, the collaborative economy mainly takes place on the Internet, so it is important to also keep in mind the impact of different models on the internet sustainability as we know it today. Models based on open protocols, open data and open source are more beneficials to Internet preservation itself, and also through data availability, favor impact assessment and collaborative economy management by citizens and administrations.
Finally, since important changes are taking place nowadays -especially in cities- but many effects of the collaborative economy are still unknown, we believe that the European Commission should aim at the role of governments to preserve the general interest, enhancing models that could better give answer to social challenges, and keep informed and consult citizens.
In this context we would like to draw attention to the Procomuns Commons Declaration<http://procomuns.net/en/policy/> with public policy recommendations for administrations for a Commons-oriented collaborative economy, and we would like to invite you to the event that will take place on Thursday 9th June at 18: 30h in Barcelona (CCCB) and through streaming under the title “From the corporate sharing economy to platform cooperativism", with the participation of Trebor Scholz presenting and discussing his book on platform cooperativism and Mayo Fuster about collaborative economy public policies.
"From the corporate sharing economy to platform cooperativism"
Thursday, 9th June at 18:30 - 20:30 followed by a networking meet up.
C/ Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona (Sala Mirador)
Streaming: <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish/Catalan will be available.
For more information about the event and for signing up: <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/
We also inform you that, during OSCEDays event, on Saturday 11th June at 16:00h, we will host a discussion about the European collaborative economy agenda.
<https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016/><https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016>https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016
This procomuns meet up is organized with Dimmons.net IN3-UOC and CCCB support, in collaboration of Barcelona Activa, IGOPnet.cc and P2Pvalue project.
CATALÀ
Reaccions a l'agenda europea l'economia col.laborativa: "De l’economia col·laborativa corporativa al cooperativisme de plataforma" - Debat 9 de Juny - 18:30h Barcelona & online
La Comissió Europea ha presentat aquest passat 2 de Juny l'agenda europea de l’economia col·laborativa<http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/ind…>, que estableix les orientacions pels Estats membre sobre com han de regular i quina ha de ser la seva política en materia l'economia col.laborativa.
Des de procomuns.net - espai per la promoció de l'economia col.laborativa procomú - voldriem iniciar un debat al respecte. Procomuns va néixer com una trobada que va reunir 400 persones vinculades a experiències l'economia col.laborativa al Març de 2016 a Barcelona, amb l'objectiu de definir polítiques públiques per una economia col.laborativa procomú. Vam fer arribar les recomanacions a les diferents Direccions Generals vinculades a l'economia col.laborativa. Malauradament l'agenda europea no es fa ressò del model l'economia col·laborativa procomú i en gran mesura adopta com a referent el model "unicorn" de grans corporacions com Uber o Airbnb, sense diferenciar models i sense tenir en compte altres basats en petites empreses, tecnología lliure i/o llicències obertes, que afavoreixen el coneixement obert com ara experiències de procomú digital o el cooperativisme de plataforma. Es tracta de models econòmics el de corporacions unicor i el procomú diversos en els seus formats i tambè en els seus impactes, i que considerem requereixen un apropament regulatori diferenciat.
D'altra banda, l’agenda presta poca atenció als dil·lemes i necessitats de protegir la figura del ciutadà i ciutadana productors, i als treballadors i treballadores de l'economia col.laborativa. Aixì mateix, és positiu que la Comissió posi l'accent en les possibles qualitats de l'economia col·laborativa en matèria d'impactes mediambientals; però no considera que a banda dels impactes en el mediambient natural, l'economia col·laborativa en gran part es recolza i té lloc a Internet, per la qual cosa, també s'ha de tindre present l'impacte dels diferents models en la sostenibilitat d'Internet tal com el coneixem avui. Així els models basats en protocols, dades i tecnología oberta són més favorables a la preservació d'Internet, i també, a través de la disponibilitat de les dades obertes, afavoreixen l'avaluació de l'impacte i la administració de l'economia col·laborativa per part de la ciutadania i les administracions.
Per últim, donat com s’anticipen canvis de profunditat -particularment a les ciutats- però en gran mesura es desconeixen molts efectes encara de l’economia col·laborativa, la Comissió Europea creiem que hauria d’apuntar al rol de les administracions per preservar l’interès general, potenciant els models que millor pugui donar resposta als reptes socials, i obrir procesos d’informació i consulta a la ciutadania.
En aquest marc volem cridar l'atenció a la Declaració de procomuns<http://procomuns.net/ca/politiques/> amb recomanacions de polítiques públiques a les administracions per una economia col·laborativa procomú, i convidar-vos a l'esdeveniment de Dijous 9 de Juny a les 18:30h a Barcelona (CCCB) i per streaming a la xarxa sota el títol: "De l’economia col·laborativa corporativa al cooperativisme de plataforma", on comptarem amb la intervenció de Trebor Scholz sobre cooperativisme de plataforma i Mayo Fuster sobre polítiques públiques de l'economia col·laborativa.
"De l’economia col·laborativa corporativa al cooperativisme de plataforma"
Dijous 9 de Juny a les 18:30-20:30 amb posterior networking “meet up”.
Carrer de Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona (Sala Mirador)
Streaming: <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb
La sessió comptarà amb traducció simultània de l'anglès al castellà-català.
Per a més informació sobre la trobada i apuntar-s’hi: <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/
A més a més, dins el marc dels OSCEays, el dissabte 11 de Juny tindrà lloc a les 16h una sessió de debat sobre l'agenda europea l'economia col·laborativa.
<https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016/><https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016>https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016
Aquest meet up de procomuns.net s’organitza amb el suport de Dimmons IN3-UOC i CCCB, en col·laboració amb Barcelona Activa, IGOPnet.cc i el projecte P2Pvalue.
CASTELLANO
Reacciones a la agenda europea de economía colaborativa: "De la economía colaborativa corporativa al cooperativismo de plataforma" - Debate 9 de junio 18: 30h Barcelona & online
La Comisión Europea presentó el pasado 2 de Junio la agenda europea de la economía colaborativa<http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/strategy/collaborative-economy/ind…>, que establece las orientaciones para los Estados miembros sobre cómo deben regular y cuál debe ser su política en materia de economía colaborativa.
Desde Procomuns.net - espacio para la promoción de la economía colaborativa procomún - nos gustaría iniciar un debate al respecto. Procomuns nació como un encuentro que reunió a 400 personas vinculadas a experiencias de economía colaborativa en Marzo del 2016 en Barcelona, con el objetivo de definir políticas públicas para una economía colaborativa procomún. La agenda europea no se hace eco del modelo de economía colaborativa procomún y en gran medida adopta como referente el modelo "unicornio" de grandes corporaciones como Uber o Airbnb, sin diferenciar modelos y sin tener en cuenta otros basados pequeñas empresas, tecnología libre y/o licencias abiertas que favorezcan el conocimiento abierto, como experiencias de procomún digital o el cooperativismo de plataforma. Se trata de modelos económicos distintos en sus formatos y también en sus impactos, y que requieren de un acercamiento regulatorio diferenciado.
Por otra parte, la agenda presta poca atención a los dilemas y necesidades de proteger la figura del ciudadano y ciudadana productores, y a los derechos de los trabajadores y trabajadoras. Es un hecho positivo que la Comisión haga hincapié en las posibles cualidades de la economía colaborativa en materia de impactos medioambientales; pero no considera que aparte de los impactos en el medio ambiente natural, la economía colaborativa en gran parte se apoya y tiene lugar en Internet, por lo que, también se debe tener presente el impacto de los diferentes modelos en la sostenibilidad de Internet tal y como lo conocemos hoy. Así, los modelos basados en protocolos, datos y tecnología abierta son más favorables a la preservación de Internet, y también, a través de la disponibilidad de los datos abiertos, favorecen la valoración de su impacto y la administración de la economía colaborativa por parte de la ciudadanía y las administraciones.
Por último, dado que se anticipan profundos cambios -particularmente en las ciudades- pero en gran medida se desconocen muchos efectos aún de la economía colaborativa, creemos que la Comisión Europea debería apuntar al rol de las administraciones para preservar el interés general, potenciando los modelos que mejor pueda dar respuesta a los retos sociales, y abrir procesos de información y consulta a la ciudadanía.
En este marco queremos llamar la atención sobre la Declaración procomún<http://procomuns.net/es/politicas/> con recomendaciones de políticas públicas a las administraciones para una economía colaborativa procomún, e invitaros al evento que se llevará a cabo el Jueves 9 de junio a las 18:30h en Barcelona ( CCCB) y por streaming en la red bajo el título: "De la economía colaborativa corporativa al cooperativismo de plataforma", que contará con la intervención de Trebor Scholz sobre cooperativismo de plataforma y Mayo Fuster sobre políticas públicas de la economía colaborativa.
"De la economía colaborativa corporativa al cooperativismo de plataforma"
Jueves 9 de junio a las 18: 30-20: 30 con posterior networking meet up.
Calle Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona (Sala Mirador)
Streaming: <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> <http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb> http://dimmons.net/cooperativismo-de-plataforma/streaming-cccb
La sesión contará con traducción simultánea del inglés al castellano-catalan.
Para más información sobre el encuentro e inscrbirse: <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> <http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/> http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-procomuns-meetup/events/231045332/
Asimismo resaltar que, en el marco de los OSCEDays, el sábado 11 de junio tendrá lugar a las 16h una sesión de debate sobre la agenda europea de economía colaborativa.
<https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016/><https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016>https://oscedays.org/barcelona-2016
Este meet up de procomún se organiza con el apoyo de Dimmons.net In3-UOC y CCCB, en colaboración con Barcelona Activa, IGOPnet.cc y el proyecto P2Pvalue.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ab-2880 "California's Legislature
Wants to Copyright All Government Works"
More background at
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160417/09213934197/california-assembly-…
According to http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/ California is one
of the three most "open" regarding government works. Presumably it won't
be anymore if AB 2880 becomes law.
California is one of only two U.S. states with a category under
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_by_government
-- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_California (1048 items).
I haven't investigated whether and how many of those items would be
subject to copyright had AB 2880 been California law at the times of
their publication.
Skimming the bill's changes to present law at
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=20…
it seems the one or two maybe dangerous additions are these:
> A public entity may own, license, and, if it deems it appropriate,
> formally register intellectual property it creates or otherwise
> acquires.
The assembly's analysis views this as a clarification, but it could open
the door to widespread use (or copyright apologists would say, abuse) of
copyright by local government, as the EFF says, "to chill speech, stifle
open government, and harm the public domain."
> (A) A state agency shall not enter into a contract under this
> article that waives the state’s intellectual property rights unless
> the state agency, prior to execution of the contract, obtains the
> consent of the department to the waiver.
>
> (B) An attempted waiver of the state’s intellectual property rights
> by a state agency that violates subparagraph (A) shall be deemed
> void as against public policy.
It is not clear to me whether this addition might serve as a barrier to
agencies deciding to publish material under open licenses. In the
meantime, I assume it will foster such barriers in practice.
https://twitter.com/mitchstoltz/status/731282363674562560 says "[EFF]'ll
probably issue an action alert, but meantime, call your state assembly
member's office & ask them to oppose."
If this is indeed a threat, I wonder if there's anything Wikimedians can
do to oppose it, in addition to those of us in California calling our
state assembly members?
Mike
How do people feel about petitioning the Librarian of Congress for a
general copyright exemption for API header files and documentation in
light of the recent Oracle vs. Google Android Java verdict?
Has the Foundation already petitioned or supported a petition for a
general copyright exemption of taxpayer-funded research?
I think it is very clear we should certainly do both if we haven't already.
Even better, how about petitioning the three federal judges comprising
the Copyright Royalty Board to institute a sliding scale for audio
royalty distributions so that the market supports the 1970s era
pre-mass consumer copying levels of artist demand? The CRB can return
both wages for songwriters and musicians as a percentage of GDP and
royalty distribution incidence in terms of new, small, developing, and
established (e.g. top-40) artists to pre-mass piracy levels by issuing
a sliding scale royalty schedule, which controls what YouTube,
Spotify, Pandora, Apple, etc., pay when people legally stream music.
Hi Raul,
Changing the topic, as this becomes a quite specific discussion.
What would be the better definition in your opinion? The burden of proof is
always on the copyright holder, I'd think. But somehow, you need to define
what is this 'panorama'. What you could see from a public space, is one
definition. What is yours?
Lodewijk
2016-06-01 14:20 GMT+02:00 Raul Veede <raul.veede(a)gmail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> Has there been any discussion about possibly (re)opening the question of
> the clause limiting FoP that demands that the pictures should be taken
> _from_ a public place? It could be argued this creates complications for
> businesses (as clearly demonstrated by the Hundertwasser case) and has
> potential for unlimited amount of uncertainty (the place where the
> photographer stood usually remains unseen on the picture itself, so the
> legality is hard to determine afterwords, especially on the Internet, e.g.
> on Commons). Most jurisdictions with FoP can get very well by without such
> a clause, and it is hard to see what benefit it creates for the public, or
> actually even for any private rightsholders.
>
> Best,
>
> Raul,
> working on FoP in Estonia
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:57 PM, John Hendrik Weitzmann <
> john.weitzmann(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> @Jens: Thx for the warm welcome. The settling in is not quite done yet.
>> I'm still watching/learning and trying to tend to urgent things on the way.
>> The justice ministry is high on the meeting agenda, a direct contact to the
>> head of their copyright unit exists. Their ideas and initiatives around
>> exceptions & limitations definitely touch on Wikiprojects. Any concrete
>> suggestions welcome. Main items on this year's WMDE work plan regarding
>> lawmaking are public works, freedom of panorama, database directive and
>> ancillary publichers right, the three last of which happen mainly on the EU
>> level as yet.
>>
>> Best
>> John
>>
>>
>> 2016-06-01 8:01 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com>
>> :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Jens Best <best.jens(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I heard that the German ministry of justice is reevaluating the
>>> > "Schrankenregeln" (kind of the German version of fair use) as one
>>> aspect of
>>> > this year's copyright laws reevaluation. Wouldn't that be a possible
>>> focus
>>> > which relates to the volunteer work of the Wikiprojects?
>>>
>>> a more precise translation of Schrankenregeln is "limitations and
>>> exceptions" in copyright. EU member states can implement exceptions
>>> listed in the InfoSoc Directive, they are not allowed to implement
>>> exceptions not listed there. The current German government has
>>> announced to adjust certain exceptions dealing with education. Other
>>> than that, the introduction of a fair use clause in German copyright
>>> would require some legislation on the EU level*
>>>
>>> Mathias
>>>
>>>
>>> * (Martin Senftleben is slightly more optimistic here
>>> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1959554)
>>>
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Dear all,
I'd like to introduce myself to all of you in my new role Legal and Policy
Advisor at Wikimedia Deutschland, reporting to Christian Rickerts. Some of
you know me already from previous engagements, but to be responsible
laterally for everything around law and politics at WMDE is surely the most
daunting task I had to date.
By training I'm a lawyer and have practiced for several years in the field
of open and free as in freedom as co-founder of the Berlin-based lawfirm
iRights.Law. Since almost ten years I support Creative Commons as volunteer
Legal Project Lead for CC Germany. From 2013 until the new WMDE job started
I was also one of two CC Regional Coordinators for Europe, a paid
contractor position. With CC's newly adopted 2016 - 2020 strategy, advocacy
and policy work in general have been added quite prominently to what CC
does as an org, and I had the honour to help get this new focus going.
There's much more to come in that respect, especially from the worldwide
network of CC Teams, who are right in the middle of deliberating about how
to structure everything in the future. So keep an eye out in that direction.
>From my CC work and also, because WMDE is an institution most central to
net politics in Germany, I'm no stranger to Wikimedia. In the past WMDE
inter alia helped to launch the brochure on CC NC licenses. I've also
already worked with people at the Wikimedia Foundation, with the Wikimedian
in Brussels, Dimitar Dimitrov, on freedom of panorama legislation, as well
as with local communities, for example on OER. In my new role as policy
advisor I will try to shape the debates that concern the legal framework
and political baselines of free knowledge on a local, regional and
international level.
Stay tuned for added policy work from Berlin, I'm very moch looking forward
to working with this great bunch of people.
Kind regards
--
John H. Weitzmann
Referent für Politik und Recht
Legal and Policy Advisor
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.