Dear all,
Many of you have helped translating and sending out our position paper on
the EU copyright reform addressed to the Council (i.e. the national
governments). [1] Thank you so, so much for that! We have gotten in touch
with 16 Member States' governments in their national language and are
expecting at least three more countries to be covered before this month
ends. This an excellent geographic spread. We are getting close to the
number of language versions and national campaigns organisations like the
WWF, Amnesty International and Greenpeace achieve. In order to make sure
our voice doesn't get lost in the national capitals, we will have to follow
up in each of these countries by requesting a (in some cases second)
meeting with the copyright authorities and localising our asks. This will
be the main focus of the upcoming Big Fat Brussels Meeting. [2]
In the meanwhile, the European Parliament has also started working on the
reform. The rapporteurs in the four responsible committees (Legal Affairs,
Internal Market, Industry & Research, Culture) have published their draft
reports (i.e. the changes they are proposing). I have re-mixed and slightly
updated the position paper, so it makes sense if given to MEPs in the
coming months. [3] The most meaningful change is that we can now
realistically support a user-generated content exception. This was an
absolute non-starter a few months ago, but is suddenly being seriously
considered in at least two committees. I would be grateful for your
comments and edits to the new text this week.
Thank you and keep up the good work!
Dimi
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1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_Policy_Consultations
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2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting_4
[3]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ew_4mazCgoFne8lUs60TpZPp6FI9_vBYEByec91…